The 48 planned rooms are being built on the fourth and fifth floors of the 70,000-square-foot, five-story tower, which was constructed in 2013. The two floors were initially left empty following the completion of the tower to allow for expansion.
“We’re starting to frame the actual patient rooms. We’re going to have 24 patient rooms on each floor up here,” said Jerry Renfrow, Grandview’s director of facilities. “We started about two weeks ago.”
The exact use for each of the rooms has not been determined, Wetherell said, but its possible that one of the floors will specialize in orthopedic work.
Once completed in the fall, the additional 48 beds at the West Grand Avenue facility will increase the number of licensed beds for the hospital to 344.
Kettering Health Network, which includes eight hospitals, nine emergency departments and more than 100 outpatient facilities, has been growing across the greater Dayton area in the last decade.
In February, the network opened its latest freestanding emergency center off Interstate 75 near Springboro and Franklin, and it is currently constructing another freestanding emergency department in Eaton that is expected to be completed later this year.
“We’re seeing increased volumes (of patients),” Wetherell said. “Dayton’s been very blessed by having very strong medical services here.”
The work at Grandview is not expected to generate any new positions immediately, but additional staff could be added if needed, Wetherell said.
Premier Health Partners, the Miami Valley’s other major medical care provider, also is expanding its family of medical facilities across the southwest Ohio region.
Atrium Health Center Mason, 7450 Mason-Montgomery Rd., is a 24-hour emergency care facility that will provide a range of medical services. The new facility is expected to open to the public next month and is estimated to generate approximately 40 jobs, according to officials.
“It’s an initiative that will allow us to further partner with the Mason community and to introduce Premier Health’s considerable expertise in the emergency care arena to the I-71 corridor,” said Atrium Medical Center President and CEO Carol Turner.
Premier’s Mason facility will be staffed by board-certified physicians from Miami Valley Hospital.
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