The project would expand the emergency department’s capacity by a dozen examination rooms that would augment 14 already in service, Long said. Contractor Danis Building Construction Co. is expected to break ground this summer on the project, designed by Chicago-based architectural firm, HOK.
“This was a planned expansion, but we’re expanding a few years sooner than anticipated,” Long said. “When they opened the hospital (in February 2012), it was with the intent of expanding out eventually. But because of the increased volume in the number of patients coming through the emergency department, they decided we better expand now.”
Long said the medical center will add jobs, as needed, to support the expansion, which is the latest in a string of planned and completed emergency department expansions in the local area.
Miami Valley Hospital completed the last phase of a $12 million expansion of its emergency department earlier this year, adding much-needed capacity to one of the busiest emergency departments in the region.
And Miami Valley’s parent, Premier Health, is planning a 22-bed, 96,000-square-foot addition to the emergency department at it’s Good Samaritan North Health Center in Englewood, which currently does not have an emergency department.
The proposed $28 million project — contingent upon the approval by the Premier Health’s board of trustees — could create 80 new jobs at an average annual salary of $55,000, according to a grant application for Montgomery County development funds from the city of Englewood.
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