The SOMC Expansion
Southern Ohio Medical Center is in the process of expanding the hospital on the Main Campus in preparation for Open Heart Surgery services to begin at the end of 2008. This $110-million long-term investment in the community includes a four-story patient care addition with 102 new private beds.
The first floor of this addition will be the new SOMC Heart and Vascular Center, with expanded cardiac testing laboratory and the cardiac catheterization laboratory with space for a third cath suite. SOMC Surgical Services will expand to 19 surgical suites, with three suites dedicated to heart and vascular procedures and five suites dedicated to gastrointestinal procedures. The SOMC Emergency Department will double in size, with the addition of 22 more beds and space for the hospital’s accredited chest pain center.
In front of the hospital, patients and visitors will be welcomed in a new two-story glass-enclosed main entrance with expanded registration areas, larger waiting areas, a new gift shop and a café. In addition to 210,000 square feet of new space being added to the hospital, 60,000 square feet of existing spaces will be refurbished and remodeled in 2008 and 2009 as part of the long-term preparations to provide health care services for years to come.
