St. Luke's investing $100M in new hospital
St. Luke's University Health Network's Anderson Campus in Bethlehem Township, New York will be enjoying new digs once a new, $100 million hospital facility opens in 2020, according to LVB.com. Construction on the project began late last week.
The new hospital will encompass four stories, 175,000 square feet of and a maternity ward that will be able to deliver 2,600 babies annually. There will also be two floors of obstetrics, a first-floor emergency room and the option to further expand the building.
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The Anderson Campus has already expanded its current location, doubling the size of its emergency room and in building a speciality pavilion. Hospital leaders cited an increase in patient volume as the main motivating factor behind the new building.
Bozeman Health Deaconess planning $75M expansion
Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital in Montana will be home to the region's first neonatal intensive care unit once a $75 million expansion project is completed, according to the state's NBC affiliate.
Currently, sick or premature babies are often flown elsewhere, sometimes to locales as far-flung as Seattle or Denver, the station reported.
In addition, a new building will be built to house a new intensive care unit for adults, as well as administrative offices. Those offices are now in what will be the future NICU.
A hospital official told the affiliate that tax-exempt bonds, financing and donations will pay for the project.
Alaska hospital preps for next phase of $40M project
Part of Central Peninsula Hospital in Alaska will be torn down to prepare for the fourth phase of a $40 million project entailing a new catheterization lab and obstetrics wing, according to the Peninsula Clarion.
Staff will be temporarily displaced as the old administrative offices are torn down to accommodate the expansion, which will likely go out to bid at the end of the month. It will be financed by bonds approved in 2016 by the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly.
A new catheterization lab will allow the hospital to provide new services, such as angiograms and pacemaker installations. Currently, patients in need of those services are flown to Anchorage, which adds to the hospital's costs -- which means the expansion project will save money in the long run.
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