ENABLING work for the new Combined Assessment Unit is now underway at University Hospital Crosshouse.
Bam Construction began preparatory work for the Combined Assessment Unit (CAU) on Monday 30 June. The CAU will be built alongside the existing Emergency Department and will include 35 en-suite bedrooms, as well as new patient assessment and ambulatory care areas. The unit will provide the physical environment needed to allow patients to be rapidly assessed and either discharged safely or admitted to a specialty ward for further care and treatment.
Construction of the CAU is part of the Building for Better Care programme, a major development to provide new fit-for-purpose facilities at the 'front doors' of University Hospitals Ayr and Crosshouse. Over the next three years, £27.5 million will be invested to help provide safe, effective and person-centred urgent and emergency care for patients coming to hospital for anything other than a scheduled appointment.
The programme will also see construction of a new Emergency Department and CAU at University Hospital Ayr.
Bam Construction has set up their site compound in the main car park at University Hospital Crosshouse. The enabling work will focus on three main areas: * road widening works at Ayrshire Maternity Unit entrance * drainage work in the main car park * ongoing work to create a new road into the laboratories and mortuary
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