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The View To The Future |
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Nurses Loree Collett, Kay
Rademacher and Michelle
Nemshak are part of the
team collaborating on the
new Children’s Hospital
and Women’s Hospital.
Their focus is to ensure
the new facility enhances
patient care. |
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Three nurses lead the project for the new hospital so they can find ways to deliver better care to their patients
When Loree Collett, administrative director, Women’s and Children’s Services, University of Michigan Health System, visited a class of U-M nursing students last spring, she told them, “As a nurse, your opportunities are endless.”
She should know. Collett has more than 20 years of experience as a nurse and nurse manager in different units at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. She calls her current role leading the Children’s and Women’s Hospital Project team “a once in a lifetime opportunity.”
All decisions for the new hospital were made after extensive research, including visiting other children’s hospitals and getting feedback from patients’ families and current Mott staff.
Michelle Nemshak also brings years of nursing experience to her role as project manager on the children’s and women’s hospital team. Prior to joining the team, the majority of her career at Mott was spent in the neonatal intensive care unit in various leadership roles. Nemshak says that Mott staff are very collaborative and everyone is committed to the new hospital. She adds that it is a nice tribute to nursing that the rest of the medical team helped design a hospital that will allow nurses to deliver better care.
The new hospital has many improvements that will benefit patient care including private patient rooms with locked cabinets for the medications. Currently, nurses in most hospitals have to go to the medication room and then return to the patient’s room. Collett praises the new system’s efficiency. Patients, visitors and equipment will each have their own designated elevators. When a patient is transferred to a room from the emergency department, it will just be a short ride on a patient-designated elevator up to the patient’s room.
Kay Rademacher, project manager, is also a nurse who joined the team after completing her role as part of the new University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center project. Rademacher says, “It is really going to be fascinating the way in which cutting-edge technology will affect the new hospital.” The new hospital will be paper light and wireless as much as possible.
As excited as they all are about the new hospital and the interior, all three are thrilled with the views patients will enjoy from their windows. Collett praises the hospital’s accessibility to the outside and patients’ views of sky, greenery and the Nichols Arboretum. Rademacher adds, “Every season is going to be spectacular.”
Find out more about the new C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Women’s Hospital.
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Great Expectations |
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“Nurses at Mott and within the Birth Center are very excited about the opportunity to provide care for our children, their mothers and families in the new children’s and women’s hospitals. Work groups of nurses and other care providers have designed the space with the vision of safety, comfort and privacy for healing. Many site visits occurred to see how other pediatric and birth centers designed their new hospital spaces. Parents, caregivers and children are continually consulted to determine what might make care better in the future.
“Nursing continues to determine how best to create work flow that is efficient, less stressful, patient-centered and creates a healing environment. Over the coming months we will work on using computers in ways that will improve communication of care. The family-centered care group is revising guidelines for how we work with families around
the clock. The Keeping Mott Safe group continues to devise ways to create safe spaces for children and families to play and heal.
“This is a very exciting time and a wonderful experience—planning for the future of family-centered care!”
—Margay Britton, Director of Patient Care Services, Women’s Children’s and Mental Health Programs |
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