A family walkway encircles the new unit, allowing visitors easy access to their loved ones. This walkway is brightened by glass walls, providing plenty of natural light and a gorgeous overlook of Central Park. When a patient's condition allows it, visitors may easily reach their loved one's room without mingling with the medical staff caring for other patients. Patients who may not be critically ill will be able to have more visitors. Patient rooms are nearly three times the size of their predecessors, measuring 16 feet by 16 feet.
Every room has a large window, bringing a little of the outside world to each patient.
Outside each room is a nursing supply closet, stocked with the medical supplies needed for each individual patient. Previously, the supply closet was in a central location, where a nurse would have to travel away from the patient in order to retrieve many of the items needed for the patient's care. The new, individualized supply closets help cut down on such trips, and time away from the extremely close nurse-patient care required for intensive care. Each patient room has a large restroom fitted to accommodate critically ill patients. As an added touch, the doors of the restrooms are made of reinforced stained glass, brightening the room, while at the same time giving patients privacy and the medical staff enough visibility to know when a patient needs assistance.