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Bethesda North Hospital Unveils Seven-Story Patient Tower
August 8 , 2007
Bethesda North Hospital, a TriHealth hospital located in Montgomery, held a dedication ceremony for its new seven-story patient care tower on Tuesday, August 7. The multi-year, $150 million project was built to address the needs of the communities in the rapidly growing northern suburbs of Greater Cincinnati.
With 300,000 square feet of additional patient care space, Bethesda North will be able to serve approximately 10,000 additional patients annually. An additional 127 beds is more than a 40 percent increase in the hospital’s inpatient capacity, and prepares Bethesda North to meet the growing community’s needs for at least a decade. Highlights of the project include: 127 new private medical-surgical patient rooms with ample family space, pull-out couches, DVDs, CD players and wireless Internet access; 32 state-of-the-art replacement ICU rooms; eight new private postpartum maternity rooms; a new high-tech nursing call system to enhance efficiency and care; an on-site MRI; a new attached parking garage; a new cafeteria; and more. The new space is directly connected to the current tower and offers greater access to the clinically sophisticated services for which Bethesda North has achieved an outstanding reputation.
“Bethesda North Hospital has been growing with the communities it serves for 37 years, and we will continue to do so,” said John Prout, president and chief executive officer of TriHealth. “Our nationally recognized quality has attracted an increasing patient population, and our compassionate commitment to those patients has guided us to expand our capacity to meet current and future demand for services.”
Planning for the new tower began in 1999 and ground was broken in May 2005. Taxpayers have not taken on any of the burden of the $150 million cost of the new patient tower. The expansion will create approximately 250 new jobs by the end of TriHealth’s fiscal year (June 2008) with the anticipation of adding more jobs as patient volume grows.
“This expansion will allow us to deliver the quality care our community expects from Bethesda North to more patients, with less waiting, more convenience and more family comforts,” said Sher McClanahan, vice president and chief operating officer of Bethesda North Hospital. “Our mission is ‘to improve the health status of the people we serve,’ and this expansion will allow us to do just that with increased capacity and enhanced technology.”
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