Lubbock, Texas-based Covenant Health has unveiled a capital improvement project called "Keeping the Covenant" that is expected the cost $450 million, according to a Plainview Herald report.
The project will include massive renovations, new construction and technology upgrades, and is slated for completion in five to seven years.
Listed below are several highlights from the construction plan, as outlined by Plainview Herald.
- Renovating and updating the equipment at the Joe Arrington Cancer Center and the Covenant Medical Center campus
- Renovating the existing heart center and radiology units
- Building a new central plant, kitchen and dining facilities
- Demolishing Covenant Medical Center's west tower to build a new tower for women's services — including delivery and postpartum floors and a neonatal ICU — and a new main hospital entrance
- Constructing two outpatient clinics to house family practice physicians and urgent care services
- Expanding the surgery center, emergency department and patient rooms at Covenant Hospital Plainview
- Move Covenant Children's to the new CMC tower and improve the patient rooms
Teb Thames, MD, chairman of Covenant's board of directors, expressed excitement over the capital improvement plan, telling the Plainview Herald, "This is a once-in-lifetime construction project where Covenant is rethinking facility design to incorporate healing elements. The vision of the facility design is to help reduce staff stress and fatigue, increase effectiveness in care delivery, and improve patient safety and overall healthcare quality."
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