Christiana Care Middletown Emergency Center

DEDC-Cx provided third party commissioning services for the Christiana Care Health Systems, Middletown Emergency Center.

This new 70,000 square foot two-story building houses a fully functioning Freestanding Emergency Department (FED).  The FED occupies the entire first floor of the facility and features imaging space as well as clinical and other medical areas including:

• Cardiac diagnostic units
• Quick-track rooms
• Decontamination room
• Nurses stations
• Doctor’s offices
• Reception/Processing Station
• Laboratories
• Chemistry
• Hematology
• Resuscitation room
• Isolation rooms
• Radiology rooms
• Police room
• Treatment rooms

The second floor of the building features a community center with a capacity for 200 persons and medical offices and meeting rooms.   There is also a detached Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) building and helipad on the Freestanding Emergency Department site.

The project was constructed to I-2 Standards to allow expansion to a full hospital in the future. The buildings and associated site work will include “Green” technologies in order to achieve LEED certification.