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THE BAIT,U|i
More individual rooms I
offered by U.S. hospital
By James Prichard
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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KALAMAZOO. Mich. — A day after suffer
ing a heart attack. Bob McAuliffe was resting
comfortably in his private room at Bronson
Methodist Hospital.
The large window allowed in plenty of sunlight
and provided a panoramic view of the outdoors. A
chair near his bed could be converted into a sleep
er for an overnight visitor, a special
room service menu and an errand
running concierge were only a
phone call away.
“It’s airy, it’s light — it’s really
like a resort or a hotel,” the 64-year-
old retired sheet-metal worker from
Marshall said while surveying his
surroundings from his bed.
For McAuliffe, who underwent
quadruple bypass surgery to repair his
heart, his favorite room feature was a
bathroom he could call his own.
Bronson is among a growing
number of new or renovated hospi
tals in Michigan and throughout the
United States whose patients recu
perate in private rooms. Besides
There's quite a
reduction in
operational costs if
you can reduce
your infection rate.
after a little more than three years, Sardonesail|
Private rooms allow doctors to spcaij
candidly w ith their patients without wonyin^
violating the Health Insurance
Accountability Act, a sweeping overhaul of fa)
health care privacy laws that took effect last A
Perhaps most importantly, patients in m
ual rooms find an environment that’s i
UCLA Medical Center is building a in,J
campus hospital w ith 525 rooms, all of wfel]
be private. Each room will fea
bu i It-in w i ndow seat that will a—
into a bed for a patient’s loved J Studeni
A planned expansion ot ■ t l uesl u
Children’s Hospital in St.PeteniP e - ()(11
Fla., is to feature a new, 2#1
pediatric hospital andanoutpl
services complex. Except fori
lider Trar
saidTS Di
Faculty
half the neonatal intensive cart® ^ nc "
all the patient rooms w
‘Over the last 25 or30yeanj (P c ass, y n
Richard Van Enk
epidemiologist
I’ve been in this business,
been becoming more
prevalent here and I’m sure sJ
w here.” said Tim Strouse,viced
idem of operations and the pern
overseeing the construction prosody Pic
I he February edition of tiJ ring hue.
Jhere pen
minute r
“We as
ialuating
I sue on th
increased privacy, hospital officials say other ben
efits to not having wards or semiprivate rooms
include less risk of acquiring an infection from
another patient and no risk of getting an incom
patible roommate.
“We have found dial this has had a wonderful,
positive impact on patient satisfaction." said
Frank J. Sardone, president and chief executive
officer of Bronson Healthcare Group, which oper
ates the hospital. “Patients and families absolute
ly love the private rooms. None of them ever want
to go back to having a semiprivate room.”
The 348-bed hospital opened in December
2(KX) at a cost of $181 million. From the time of
its conception in the early 1990s, Bronson offi
cials never wavered in their desire for addressing
patients’ privacy. Sardone said.
The advantages include some significant cost
savings for the hospital, including about $500,000
per year in patient-transfer costs. A four-year
study by Dr. Richard Van Enk, an epidemiologist
on staff, found that the number of hospital-
acquired diseases and infections dropped by 11
percent between 1999 and 2002. resulting in fur
ther annual savings of $1.2 million.
“There’s quite a reduction in operational costs if
you can reduce your infection rate," Van Enk said.
The extra cost required to construct an all-private
hospital has almost been recovered in the savings
Student
Student
spotting American Demographicsmagtoatfle will \<
almost all new hospital rooms beingbmljculty.'
single rooms.
“As there becomes more traosputneygflibmit tlu
whole health care structure. I think private r«r
become sort of a function of that because fd
make demands of what their dollars are J
lor,” said John McManus, the publication.;
tor-in-chief. i
It costs more for hospitals that have only sJ
moms because tower patients can be cared ij
one time, but Bronson officials “feel thet
outweigh that cost.” Sardone said.
The rate for one night of room and boailj
Bronson is SI.459. a cost covered by Media
Medicaid and most private insuranceptaatap
the hospital has only individual room rates.
"As far as we re concerned, we can era
benefits package that includes those things."s
Mohit Chose, a spokesman for the ren
merged American Association of Health PI®
Health Insurance Association of Americi
trade group represents nearly 1,300 compi
that provide health insurance coverage ioiJ
than 2(H) million U.S. residents.
“It’s just a question of what the maiteii
bear and what employers, employees
sumers in general w ant to pay for in theirleafl
care coverage.” Chose said.
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