Roundup: Hospital expansions, renovations slated for Tennessee, Arizona and Wisconsin

Hospitals around the country continue embarking on modernization, expansion and renovations projects. Most recently, the multi-million dollar initiatives have begun in Arizona, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

Here's a roundup of the latest facilities work underway. 

Tennessee hospitals to go through growth spurt

Nashville is growing, and several hospitals in Tennessee are growing as a result. The Tennessean reports that six hospitals owned by TriStar Health will be undergoing expansion projects over the next three years that will total more than $500 million.

TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Midtown will receive the greatest proportion of funds -- $124 million, enough to buy four additional floors and a new joint replacement center.

TriStar Skyline Medical Center, north of downtown Nashville, will also upgrade, adding a couple of new floors and an expanded emergency department. TriStar Summit Medical Center, east of Nashville, will add a medical-surgical bed unit on one of its floors, and TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center in Smyrna will tack on 17 beds and and expand the behavioral health and clinical decision units in the emergency room.

TriStar also has plans to open two new facilities elsewhere in the state, including a new behavioral health hospital in Columbia and a standalone emergency room facility in Mt. Juliet. The latter will likely be open sometime in December.

Northwest Healthcare expands presence in Arizona

Northwest Healthcare has about $150 million worth of expansion projects and renovations in Arizona slated for this year, according to Tucson News Now. A medical campus in Sahuarita, complete with a new hospital and physician offices, will be part of the mix, pending approval from the city's mayor and council.

Expected to open in late 2019, the 18-bed facility will include two operating rooms and an emergency room. About 150 staff members will be employed throughout the campus.

Mukwonago to get full-fledged hospital at last

A medical campus in the Wisconsin village of Mukwonago will bloom into a full hospital thanks to its owner, Pro-Health Care, investing $55 million in the project.

GM Today reports the project, expected to begin this summer, will be completed by the end of 2019 and will encompass advanced diagnostic imaging, inpatient and patient surgery and a cancer center. 

The project is expected to create about 100 jobs. The last major addition to the facility was a 66,000 square-foot emergency department in 2015.

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