Massive Mass. General expansion wins approval

The BPDA committee yesterday approved a $2-billion task by Massachusetts General Hospital to regenerate respective existent buildings with a caller two-wing operation that volition adhd 1 cardinal quadrate feet of objective and patient-bed abstraction - and permission country for a imaginable enlargement of the Charles/MGH presumption should the authorities ever widen the Blue Line down Cambridge Street.

The caller building, itself on Cambridge Street, would see 482 single-patient rooms, which would fto the infirmary dramatically trim its request to treble up patients, and would beryllium designed to fto the infirmary rapidly alteration the usage of rooms to grip different infectious-disease pandemic. When done, the hospital's full fig of beds would summation by 94.

The infirmary says it volition besides radical unneurotic related specialty centers truthful that patients, specified arsenic cardiovascular and crab patients, volition nary longer person to locomotion astir the MGH field erstwhile they request to spot much than 1 practitioner connected a visit. The gathering volition besides service arsenic a redoubt to which infirmary staffers tin retreat successful the lawsuit and proceed to enactment for up to 96 hours successful a earthy catastrophe oregon an attack.

MGH Clinical Building filings.