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Doctors Community Hospital has all new private patient rooms

Doctors Community Hospital now boasts a six-story patient bed tower, featuring 90 private patient rooms and a significantly expanded Emergency Department, adding 17 additional treatment beds. Private rooms benefit the patients by supporting healing and providing privacy, while the Emergency Department expansion enables the hospital to treat a greater number of patients and reduce wait times. With the addition of this patient tower and additional renovations during the past year, Doctors Community Hospital offers all-private patient rooms.

The new patient tower is part of an overall campus transformation project that includes a new professional office building, which houses physician offices, a women’s center, a regional cancer center with radiation therapy, and a newly constructed 400-car parking garage.

“The focus of this entire project is on patient safety, quality and overall patient satisfaction,” says Philip Down, president and CEO of Doctors Community Hospital. “Private rooms are considered the gold standard in health care delivery as they afford patients and their families the utmost privacy as well as a high level of safety from medical errors and hospital-acquired infections. Studies show that private rooms assist in the healing process, allow for family centered care and dramatically improve patient satisfaction.”

The private rooms go beyond providing privacy and safety. Each room features an advanced computerized patient bed, private bathroom and shower, accommodations for family members to spend the night and a 32-inch flat-screen TV with Internet connection. In addition to the homelike amenities, the rooms also allow nurses to visually observe the patient through uniquely designed windows. Nurses will work from mobile computers, allowing them to better monitor patients.

Also located in the patient tower are dialysis and infusion areas, an inpatient physical therapy area and rooms for patients needing advanced monitoring.

The expanded Emergency Department, which currently treats approximately 60,000 patients annually, will be able to treat up to 90,000 patients per year. This will be made possible by an enhanced triage area; updated patient monitoring systems; and 24-hour access to emergency imaging, including CT scan, MRI, radiology and ultrasound. The new triage area and monitoring systems, along with the private patient rooms, are expected to decrease wait times and speed overall treatment of patients.

“We take great pride in how quickly patients are seen by a physician in our ER, and these changes will allow us to further improve our door-to-doctor time,” notes Down.

Doctors Community Hospital is a 186-bed acute care medical and surgical hospital.  Founded in 1975 by leading physicians in Prince George’s County, the hospital has continued to be at the forefront in providing state-of-the-art medical care while providing a caring environment for patients and their families.