Healthcare
Overlook Medical Center Completes 78K-SF East Building Expansion
On Jan 21, 2025
Overlook Medical Center, part of Atlantic Health System, recently marked the completion of the East Building, a 3-story expansion to the hospital campus that houses new and updated space for vital specialties.
The East Building represents a major expansion to the hospital as part of the ongoing Overlook Ahead project, a plan to extensively transform and enhance the Overlook Medical Center campus. The expansion provides new, updated, state-of-the art spaces for maternity care, cardiology and critical care and neuroscience.
“This building, and most importantly the care that will be provided here, truly embodies our vision for the future of acute care,” said Stephanie Schwartz, president of Overlook Medical Center and senior vice president, Atlantic Health System. “It is no secret that healthcare is changing fast. We need to stay ahead of the curve, to continue to provide the best care to our community and meet the needs of our region. The advancements in this new space will complement the physicians, nurses and team members who deliver care and will have a profound impact on the patient and family experience and on the team member and physician experience.”
The 78,000-square-foot, expansion, split between three floors, involved complete renovation of an existing 42,000-square-foot, two-story section of the hospital and adding a complete 8th floor on top of the existing building while also creating a three-story addition at the end of the building. In addition, Overlook enlarged the bridge connecting to the main hospital and added a dedicated patient transport elevator tower.
The East Building includes:
- A new post-partum unit, named the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Newborn and Family Care Unit, located on the 6th Floor. In addition to a renovated labor and delivery unit that was opened in 2024, these enhancements to the Frank and Mimi Walsh Maternity Center demonstrate Overlook’s continued commitment to providing outstanding family-centered care. The expanded space features new cesarean-section operating rooms, birthing suites, and all-private postpartum rooms with enhanced proximity to a renovated NICU. The new space will also include the Summit Foundation Nursery. Redesigned for maximum efficiency and collaboration of the maternity care team, the unit will be poised to welcome future generations with the kind of safe and soothing environment so essential to an extraordinary patient experience.
- The FM Kirby Foundation Neuroscience Center, a new neuroscience “super-unit,” that will include the Jeneil B. Reeves Neuro ICU on the 7th Floor. The redesigned inpatient unit will bring together the entire neuroscience team on one floor, with all private patient rooms to ensure comfort and support from loved ones. The neuro super unit includes an enlarged Neuro Intensive Care Unit with rooms designed to care for acute stroke and post-operative spine and brain tumor patients. The unit also includes a new epilepsy monitoring unit to provide timely 24/7 clinical responses to patients with seizure disorders. Dedicated neurosurgical operating rooms will feature state-of-the-art technology to handle the most complex vascular, brain tumor, and skull base procedures. New outpatient space will be home to Overlook’s centers of excellence, bringing together our neurologists and neurosurgeons and their multi-disciplinary teams to provide comprehensive care coordinated by our patient navigators.
- The Kevin Bell, MD Critical Care Unit on the 8th Floor will include newly designed private rooms that will be larger and more technology-enabled to provide for the 24-hour care needed by our sickest patients whose conditions are not stable enough for transfer to a regular hospital room. The enhanced space will allow our ICU and CCU health care providers to deliver extraordinary care in a thoughtfully designed environment.
- The Wilf Family Cardiology Center on the 8th floor is a new state-of-the-art cardiology unit with single rooms. This unit will allow Overlook to offer intensive, intermediate, and/or acute care without moving patients to different units, thereby enhancing their safety and comfort. In addition, the new Hartman Satellite Caregivers Center, an extension of The Thomas Glasser Caregivers Center, will foster an improved healing environment for both patients and families.
Additional features include:
- A renovated NICU to support our youngest patients
- A satellite pharmacy to streamline care
- A dedicated patient transport system for efficient OR and imaging access
- A small office area and elevator lobby on the 5th floor as well and a new mechanical chiller plant below the building addition
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