SCRANTON, PA-Officials with Geisinger Community Medical Center broke ground on Monday on an $80-million expansion project that will increase it size by one-third.
When completed in the summer of 2015, the expanded facilities will include 14 state-of-the art operating rooms, a 950-square-foot waiting room and 18 private rooms in the intensive care unit. The 105,000-square-foot expansion will update the current operating rooms and intensive care unit, built in 1967, according to the Scranton Times Tribune.
As part of its July 2011 agreement with Community Medical Center and its affiliated facilities, Geisinger Health System pledged to spend nearly $159 million in capital improvements at the hospital over the next seven years. The expansion project now underway is part of the promised capital investment program. The medical center will add about 200 jobs to its current 1,500-member workforce when the new facility is finished. See story in the Scranton Times Tribune.
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