Lutheran Hospital Investing in Expansion

Lutheran Hospital made a major announcement today about their facility - they will be adding a fifth floor as part of their ongoing project to achieve all-private patient rooms. They have also recently undergone the addition of new private rooms, renovated units and expanded parking.

The project will take around 19 months and will cost $42.3 million, and their goal is to keep public and patient access unchanged during the construction. The end result will be 96 new private patient rooms, 72 telemetry beds for the monitoring of cardiac patients, 24 intensive care beds, and more computer workstations for caregivers.

You can follow updates on the fifth floor construction online at LutheranHealth.net. Design services for the project are being handled by MSKTD & Associates Inc, and the general contractor is Weigand Construction (both companies are Chamber members, might I brag). At the height of construction, approximately 150 individuals will be working at the job site.

Other recent renovations at Lutheran include updates to the Childbirth Suites, the neonatal intensive care unit, the cardiovascular intensive care unit and the inpatient oncology unit. An expansion and upgrade to the electrophysiology lab, where patients receive advanced cardiac care, is already underway. The addition of the fifth floor will be the largest project in terms of total reinvestment and new rooms at Lutheran since the hospital moved to West Jefferson Boulevard in 1992.