Morgan County Reporter-Times Mooresville editor Amy Hillenburg wrote in Sunday's paper about the coming expansion of the St. Francis Hospital-Mooresville campus. Much of the expanded hospital will open in April 2008, with the emergency room services opening later in the year.
The new emergency room will feature more than a dozen exam rooms and will be staffed by the physicians of Emergency Physicians of Indianapolis.
Other features of the expanded hospital discussed in Hillenburg's article include:
- an eight-room Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
. - a 27-bed surgical unit.
- a 30-bed orthopaedic unit.
- six new operating room suites (pictured at right). (Above right is the preop area. The day of surgery the patient is first taken to this area and prepared for surgery.)
- rooftop gardens.
- a renovated cafeteria.
- a new gift shop and coffee stand.
