Best Health Care and Project of the Year Finalist: Brigham & Women's Hospital, Emergency Department Expansion Phase 1
The $46-million emergency department expansion and renovation would have been challenging under the best of circumstances. By spring 2020, the team was well along on the project as Boston’s busiest emergency department went about its business treating some 60,000 patients a year. Then COVID-19 hit.
After Boston’s nonessential construction shutdown, the team and the hospital gained permission to continue work on the project, which involved building a 25,000-sq-ft addition followed by renovation of the existing emergency department. Adding to the challenges, the department expansion was atop the hospital’s radiology department, with CT scan and MRI machines doing tests on a 24/7 schedule.