Out with the old, in with the new. Three of six new operating rooms at Sparrow Hospital's West Wing Tower are open for operation. Each room is nearly 650 sq. ft., a 300 ft. difference from the old ones.

"These new OR's are at least a third bigger, than our other OR's down the hall, and the OR's that we had upstairs, the older OR's; they're about twice the size and with the advent now of more technology; more equipment, we really need the room," said April Morris, a Nurse Practitioner at Sparrow.

The room for robotics surgeries that two of the new rooms are specifically designed for. As doctors remove a cancerous prostate from a patient, the surgeon operates the equipment from across the room and while he couldn't take his eyes off the patient during surgery, he could still attest to the room's open access.

"Basically it's a space allocation that was really needed, the old operating rooms were built not to handle all of this equipment," said Dr. Mashni of Sparrow.

One of the premier features of the west wing operating room is nearly seven HD monitors that allow surgeons to see anything and everything during the process.

"You can put the screens through out the whole room, where before we only had two screens," said Cheryl Vannewkirk, Sparrow DaVinci Robotics Coordinator.

"We can get X-rays on the monitors, pull up information from the computer, " Morris said.

They can also use a room-to-room conferencing communication system to check progress on other surgeries.

"It gives us access to information much more readily," Morris said.

Information that's vital when every second counts.