FARMINGTON — The University of Connecticut has opened its new 11-floor, 38,000-square foot hospital tower in Farmington.
Seventy patients on five floors, including those in intensive care, were moved Friday from their rooms inside the existing Connecticut Tower at John Dempsey Hospital into the new University Tower.
Hospital CEO Anne Diamond said the move, which used a bridge that connects the second floors of the towers, went smoothly.
The $318 million building, built with money from the state’s Bioscience Connecticut initiative, includes 169 private rooms, a state-of-the art surgical unit, and a 40-bed emergency department.
The hospital’s oncology and cardiac step-down units also are located in the new tower.
The hospital is keeping its labor and delivery, gynecology, prisoner-care unit and psychiatric inpatient unit in the old tower.
