Converting Your Los Angeles Medical Office to an Alternate Care Facility (ACF)

With Covid-19 cases still on the rise, the healthcare industry has seen an increase in medical office renovations in order to accommodate patient demand. Recently, as reported in Healthcare Design Magazine, Advocate Sherman Hospital rehabbed and converted a vacant medical space into an Alternate Care Facility (ACF) in Elgin, Illinois.

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With only four weeks to spare, a construction team consisting of 200 architects, engineers, contractors, and construction workers transformed an empty hospital space into an Alternate Care Facility (ACF). The newly designed negative air pressurized space provides private patient bays outfitted with a wireless nurse call system.

The project team of construction workers and architects focused on:

• Defining the patient bay size and bed count to government health guidelines determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Considerations for Alternate Care Sites
• Identifying major building air circulation
• Planning and building separate designated patient and medical staff walkways and seating areas
• Meeting support space requirements
• Solving infrastructure needs such as handwashing stations, negative air pressure zone, and on-site nurse call systems

The Illinois hospital renovation was completed successfully thanks to the efforts of a talented architectural team and a hardworking construction crew.  Madison Medical Construction has years of experience in the field of medical office renovation and construction. We provide guidance from design to the completed construction phase.