Columbus, Ohio-based Mount Carmel Health System announced it is investing more than $700 million in its people-centered care strategy, which focuses on prevention and wellness, improved care coordination, population health management and integrated care capabilities targeted at keeping people healthier.
The investment includes major projects at three Mount Carmel Health System campuses: Columbus-based Mount Carmel East, Mount Carmel Grove City (Ohio) and Columbus-based Mount Carmel West, according to a news release.
At Mount Carmel East, a $310 million "modernization" will begin this spring and be completed in phases through 2019. The project includes the construction of a new five-story patient care tower with a new surgical suite and 128 new all-private, acuity adaptable patient rooms, as well as the complete renovation of the original 1969 bed tower to provide 112 all-private patient rooms. Once complete, Mount Carmel East will be a nearly 400 bed, all-private room facility, according to a news release.
A $355 million investment in Mount Carmel Grove City will expand the facility to a full-service hospital by 2018. The project includes an inpatient hospital, which will feature 210 private rooms and seven floors of clinical service. The project also includes a medical office building, which will include comprehensive outpatient oncology, women's health, maternal fetal medicine and other physician offices. The campus will also be the new headquarters for Mount Carmel Health System's graduate medical education.
Mount Carmel Grove City will maintain its existing emergency and outpatient services during construction, according to a news release. After construction is completed in Grove City, Mount Carmel West's inpatient operations will transfer to Grove City and the Mount Carmel West campus will undergo a $46 million transformation.
The existing nearly 130-year old Mount Carmel West campus will become a health and educational campus that will focus on primary care, urgent and emergent care and include an emergency department, according to a news release. The transformation of the campus will provide needed room for growth for the Mount Carmel College of Nursing, and expand on efforts of the Mount Carmel Community Health Resource Center, the release reads.