Anne Arundel Medical Center’s new, eight-story patient tower, shown through an artistic rendering.

The second acute-care patient tower, adjacent to the existing Acute Care Pavilion (ACP), will include eight new operating rooms and 50 additional private inpatient rooms, enabling AAMC to care for more than 6,000 additional inpatients annually. Increased operating room and inpatient admission capacity also will allow AAMC to continue to attract top medical staff to meet the needs of regional growth, including the influx of new households as a result of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) changes to Maryland, as well as the demands of an aging patient population. Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) in Annapolis, Md., has embarked on expansion projects totaling $424 million that will nearly double the size of the AAMC medical campus by 2010. This new patient tower is a major component of this expansion.

Anne Arundel Medical Center’s new, seven-story Health Sciences Pavilion, shown through an artistic rendering.

When complete, the AAMC Health Sciences Pavilion (HSP), being built next to the AAMC Sajak Pavilion on the west campus, will house physician offices, outpatient services, and a Health Sciences Institute with a 400-seat auditorium, lecture rooms and classrooms for AAMC community education and professional educational seminars.  The institute will allow AAMC to host continuing medical education (CME) events and telemedicine conferences with physicians from around the country.