Monday, May 19, 2025
5/19/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Sinai Health System is relocating, renovating, and expanding Sinai Chicago's Intensive Care Unit at Mount Sinai Hospital in the Olin-Sang Building, Fourth Floor (relocating current ICU services housed in a more distant wing in the Kurtzon Building, Eighth Floor. Sinai’s goal, based on its strategic planning conducted in 2020 and subsequently in 2022, is to create a flexible, scalable, and optimal healing environment that will produce measurable improvements in the physical or psychological states of patients, staff, physicians, and visitors and operations within Sinai. Sinai will create 21-24 state-of-the-art private rooms designed to accommodate the most seriously ill and injured patients. Due to advancing processes and technology, and with COVID, a renovated ICU with a flexible, universally adaptable floor plan will enhance patient and family-centered care by creating patient rooms that can allow advanced technology required to treat the advanced cases we receive while balancing the need for family presence. On the ground floor of the Olin Sang Building, Sinai built an Emergency Department and Level I Trauma Center in 1970. The ED/Trauma Center sees over 40,000 patients and over 2,000 victims of trauma annually. The main surgery suite for Mount Sinai is immediately above the Trauma Center on the Olin Sang second floor. Re-location of the ICU from the Kurtzon Building to Olin Sang 4th Floor (a former Acute Pediatrics wing of 24 beds) will greatly improve access, the speed of transport, and patient safety (reduced risk infection control) of admitted patients from the ED/Trauma Center and surgical patients as appropriate. Sinai intends to use the $2,000,000 from the CDS grant award to contract with and support architects, engineers, needed consultants (if any) and designers who will make up the bulk of the project from contributing to the style, design, and structural views. They will, in turn, collaborate with a number of Sinai professionals in one or more design teams to create a layout that functions for caring for patients properly, efficiently, and with their safety and wellbeing in mind at all times. Sinai will engage both clinically oriented, support and family/patient representatives in multidisciplinary teams. Team members will have been involved in ICU clinical and operational roles including physicians, nurses, infection control specialists, pharmacists, therapists, and ancillary staff; a design team contracted by Sinai with these funds such as an architectural and engineering firm and technology planners of medical equipment and the transition to EPIC information technology; administrative staff with experience in utilization, finance, and budgets; and representatives of hospital support services such as materials management, environmental services, and food services. Designing the intensive care unit will involve four major zones: 1. The Patient Care Zone consists of patient rooms and adjacent areas; its primary function is direct patient care. 2. The Clinical Support Zone consists of functions closely related to direct patient care, not only inpatient rooms but also in other areas of the unit. 3. The Unit Support Zone refers to areas of the unit where administrative, materials management, and staff support functions occur. 4. The Family Support Zone refers to areas designed to support families and visitors. The A&E firm (and any needed consultants) will likely allocate expenses within the $2M for programming, schematic design, design development, and the development of construction documents. Sinai’s initial estimation of costs based on this allocation is: Programming (including assessments/consulting): 20% or $400,000 Schematic Design: 20% or $400,000 Design Development: 25% or $500,000 Contingencies 5% or $100,000 Development of Construction Documents 30% or $600,000
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).