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North Tower Fast Facts
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Donor wall built to showcase those who
helped make the North Tower a reality
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Free wireless internet available throughout
facility for the benefit of our visitors
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Patient registration is completed through
docking stations to maximize efficiency
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Strickland Chapel and healing garden are
available for visitor comfort and personal
reflection
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Separate patient discharge lobby
• Each floor has isolation rooms to aid in
infection control
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Windows looking into patient rooms have
been designed to be versatile to maximize
patient visibility, as well as privacy
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Natural and indirect lighting to enhance
patient environment
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Building design included input of nurses,
clinicians and more than 50 physicians
• Overhead lifts aide staff in
patient transport, as well as reducing patient discomfort
• HEPA 99.97% individually
filtered air in all patient rooms
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Spacious family suites are
located on every floor
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Their are 31 private patient
rooms per floor
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Rooms crafted with doublethick walls and white noise to
provide more privacy
Inside
GMC’s
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Center for Surgical Services.
With 31 acute care beds, this
floor will be dedicated to postsurgical patients.
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7
Center for Orthopedics and
Surgical Specialties. Housing
31 acute care beds, the seventh
floor will be a dedicated postsurgical
unit and will contain our Center for
Orthopedics as well as other surgical
specialties, such as general surgery
and urology.
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6
Center for Neuroscience
and Spine. Holding 21 acute
care and 10 critical care beds,
the sixth floor will accommodate
our patients suffering from stroke
and brain injuries as well as spinal
surgery cases.
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Center for Cardiac Services.
There will be 31 acute care beds on
this floor, serving inpatients before
and after having cardiac procedures.
Patients with cardiac conditions such
as congestive heart failure and cardiac
arrhythmias will also be assisted here.
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Center for Medical
Services and
Progressive Care. The
floor will have a 12-bed
progressive care unit (for patients
requiring extra nursing
attention) and 19 acute care beds,
and will accommodate our
complex medical patients
including pulmonary, renal,
and those requiring special
isolation precautions.
2
Surgical
Observation Unit.
At this time, the 18bed observation unit will be
for short stay medical and
surgical patients.
8
interesting facts
about the North Tower
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Gwinnett Medical Center is transforming healthcare by installing
$13 million of new technology into the eight floors of the North Tower.
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Doors in the North Tower are 7 feet wide to ensure easy patient
transfer—that’s wide enough to allow passage for a Hummer H2!
6
Every 60 minutes in the U.S., two people fall while bathing. The North
Tower features slip-resistant bathroom floors to reduce that number.
5
The entire Gwinnett Braves roster, plus 112 of their biggest fans, could fit
into one of our 285-square-foot patient rooms in the North Tower.
4
The width of the fourth floor, including the North Tower, South Tower and
connecting bridge, is wider than the Sears Tower in Chicago.
3
The North Tower adds 172,000 square feet to GMC facilities. That’s more
than 3 football fields!
2
The oversized elevators in the North Tower are large enough to hold
28,102,267 pieces of candy.
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The 155 rooms in the North Tower will be open to serve our community
starting September 30, 2009!
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