Henry Ford Health
Construction has begun on Henry Ford Health’s historic Detroit campus expansion project, known as “Destination: Grand.” Their new state-of-the-art hospital facility will span roughly 1.2 million square feet and will be located directly across the street from the legacy Henry Ford Hospital campus, which will remain in operation.
The facility will include a new 20-floor patient tower with 432 all-private, high-tech patient rooms. Five of those floors will offer specialized ICU rooms, from cardiovascular to neurological, and highlight the system’s commitment to unparalleled care. The three top floors, comprising 72 patient beds, is where patients will receive inpatient physical medicine and rehabilitation in partnership with top-ranked Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.
The vastly expanded emergency department (ED) on the ground floor will provide 75,000 square feet of modern, innovative treatment space, including 100 private, flexible treatment spaces. The ED will contain 100 patient rooms, including a secure 10-room behavioral health treatment area. .
Twenty-eight new operating rooms will be capable of handling nearly every type of complex surgical case, from transplants to brain surgery. A bridge to the existing Brigitte Harris Cancer Pavilion connects to the second and third floors, which house the Interventional Platform, where the 28 operating rooms will be, along with prep/recovery bays and support areas. Mechanical space will be located on the top floors of the podium and at the highest and lowest floors of the patient tower. The Diagnostic + Treatment podium activates the ground floor by locating the main hospital entrance at the base of the bed tower north of the building along Henry Square.
The hospital bed tower rises high above the podium, becoming both a literal and figurative beacon to the City of Detroit. The bed tower will be clad in glass and expresses progressive and modern healthcare. The shape of the bed tower is a triangle and strategically orients patient room views to campus green space to the northwest and the New Center to the northeast. The triangle shape also forms three 12-bed, V-shaped nursing units. In form, the patient room blocks cantilever out from the triangular shape of the tower. They are clad in a high-performing glass enclosure that helps increase patient comfort.
The project also includes a 185,000-square-foot shared services building (SSB), which will house the hospital’s kitchen, loading dock, sterile processing and more. The SSB will be connected to the hospital via a double-height pedestrian bridge located on the building’s northeast corner. The building will also serve as the main mechanical intake from the Central Energy Hub, a 46,000-square-foot facility which will house a hot and chilled water pump system which will heat and cool the new hospital buildings.
