DANVILLE – Geisinger Health System officials broke ground Thursday, June 21, for a new $100 million, 308,000-square-foot building on the Danville, PA campus. Geisinger President & CEO Glenn Steele Jr., MD, said: “The Hospital for Advanced Medicine bears witness to Geisinger’s ongoing commitment to bringing true innovation into healthcare, all within the framework of one of the nation’s finest fully integrated healthcare systems.” The hospital will serve as a vital resource for the region’s sickest patients, he said. “The Hospital for Advanced Medicine will give my colleagues all the tools, technology and resources necessary to perform even the most difficult procedures,” said Geisinger Medical Center Chief Medical Officer Joseph Bisordi, MD.“ You’ll see in this building a ‘hospital within a hospital,’ which pulls all the resources together to care for the most critically ill and injured patients in the region.” |
GMC Chief Administrative Officer Lynn Miller, said the flexible and technology-focused nine-story building will adjoin Geisinger Medical Center. It will house 50,000-square-feet of diagnostic and laboratory space, several floors of patient rooms, and a new 32,000-square-foot surgical suite with sophisticated robotic and interventional medical equipment. The hospital will be an environmentally friendly “green” building, with a design that features recycled materials and increases energy efficiency by allowing natural light into patient rooms and staff offices. The new patient rooms will house 60 acuity-adaptable beds, meaning that the beds can change from intensive care to recovery, as the patient progresses through the health process. | 
Sue Hallick, Chief Nursing Officer; Frank Henry, Chairman
of the Board; Lynn Miller, Chief Administrative Officer; Glenn
Steele, Jr., MD, PhD, President and CEO; John Gerder,
President, Ewing Cole; Joanne Wade, Executive Vice
President, Strategic Initiatives and Clinical Enterprise;
Joseph Bisordi, MD, Chief Medical Officer.
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The facility will also provide space for future expansion – square footage we’ll need as patient needs increase and technology changes. More than 50 new jobs will be created when the building opens in 2010. “This event marks a significant investment for Geisinger Health System, and it again underscores our 90-plus-year commitment to Mrs. Geisinger’s vision and to Danville – where the health system was founded,” Steele said. EwingCole is the architectural firm and Torcon, Inc is the construction firm for the Hospital for Advanced Medicine. |
