ZCH Facilities Designed to Promote Healing
A Healing Environment
Zeeland Community Hospital is designed to promote healing. Research provides conclusive evidence that a hospital’s design can have a positive impact on patients. Various studies have shown that patient-oriented design, as we have included throughout the hospital, can:
- Speed recovery
- Reduce infection rates
- Lower reliance on pain medication
- Increase patient safety
- Improve patient satisfaction
Natural light, greenery and a relaxed comfortable interior will help patients recover as quickly as possible, while also making it convenient and pleasant for friends and families to visit.
ZCH Amenities
Need a gift to celebrate or uplift? Looking for a quiet place of reflection? Need to conduct business while your loved one is having a procedure? Numerous amenities are provided to make your visit and stay with us as easy and comfortable as possible.
When designing the building, ZCH was filled with important upgrades.
- All private patient rooms
- Private bathrooms in all rooms
- Space and amenities for visitors in rooms and waiting areas
- Ample free on-site parking for all campus buildings
- Excellent accessibility from all directions off major roadways
- Mobile dock for nuclear medicine, MRI and other mobile technologies
- Expanded diagnostic and treatment services, including a 16-slice CT scan
- New digital X-ray equipment, which provides faster results
- A private area for women’s health services and an all-female staff of technologists
- New picture archiving and communication system (PACS), which allows faster diagnosis by transmitting digital images to physicians and specialists allowing them to view images on their computer or by CD
- Expansion of the Family Birth Center, to accommodate more patients and provide whirlpools and other comfortable considerations
- 24-hour Emergency Room services
- Dedicated helicopter landing pad near the Emergency entrance
- Additional surgical and procedure rooms
- Private pre- and post-operation surgery rooms
- A new Chapel, designed with input from the local Ministerial Association, encourages quiet reflection and meditation for people of all faiths
- A Medical Library, which offers a wide range of medical information as well as magazines and other reading materials, computer stations and Internet access
- Expanded classroom space for community education programs
