Star Lake, N.Y.-based Clifton-Fine Hospital received a $16 million grant to upgrade its facilities, local news outlet WWNY reported March 29.
The grant is the most the 20-bed hospital has ever been awarded. The hospital will begin work on the projects this summer and hopes to complete it within four years.
At the same time, the hospital will use a separate, $4.6 million grant to double its emergency room capacity.
"This is a hospital that was built in 1949, and it has had very little infrastructure upgrades throughout the years," Clifton-Fine CEO Dierdra Sorrell BSN, RN, told WWNY. "As we really looked at the things that were needed through COVID-19, like isolation and negative pressure, and all those things that helped us get through that pandemic, we did the very best we could with what we had, but we need those systems in place to be prepared for whatever the future brings."