Patient Care Tower and single-patient rooms
A growing campus to double capacity and provide single-patient rooms that prioritize privacy, peace, family, and healing
French Hospital was originally built in the early 1970s with three‐bed patient rooms. Our new Patient Care Tower, the centerpiece of our expansion, will bring much needed single-patient rooms—today's standard of care—to our community. The tower, coupled with renovations to the existing hospital building, will significantly increase patient capacity and critical services, making French Hospital the largest hospital in San Luis Obispo County.
The benefits of single-patient rooms
Single-patient rooms will provide patients and families with a better care experience, while enhancing caregiver workflow. Compared to hospital rooms with multiple patients, single-patient rooms facilitated a better healing process by providing
- Increased privacy and dignity
- Reduced stress for patients and families
- Shorter lengths of stay
- Decreased infection rates
- Noise reduction
- Decreased sleep disturbances
- Improved communication with caregivers and loved ones
Overall, these benefits combine to create a more positive experience and improved outcomes for our patients. Adding single-patient rooms will provide our patients with the care they deserve and demonstrates our ongoing patient-first commitment.
Hospital Expansion Details: Patient care tower and single-patient rooms
The Hospital Expansion Project will more than double the number of single-patient rooms currently available, creating 108 single-patient rooms, compared to today’s 20 single-patient rooms and 31 rooms that are double- and triple-patient.
The new patient care tower will include 54 single-patient rooms with healing views of gardens and Cerro San Luis mountain. This includes:
- A Medical/Surgery and Telemetry floor featuring 28 single-patient rooms
- A new Intensive Care Unit, featuring 20 ICU rooms and a six-room Progressive Care Unit. This will double our intensive care capacity, expanding our ability to provide immediate, lifesaving care to critically ill patients. In addition, the third floor will house a new Medical/Surgical and Telemetry unit with 28 single-patient rooms.
In addition to the single-patient rooms in the new tower, our current patient rooms in the existing hospital building will be converted to provide all patients with access to single-patient rooms.
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