A story by Indianapolis Star reporter Bruce C. Smith, published Saturday, Jan. 5, in the West editions of the Star and online, featured both the expansion of the Mooresville hospital and the St. Francis Plainfield Health Center.
Smith suggested that the $42 million expansion project in Mooresville, “combined with its medical office building in Plainfield, could lure patients from a wide region of Hendricks, Marion and Morgan counties.”
He said that hospital administrators are pleased with the Plainfield center’s success and that “the expanded St. Francis Hospital—Mooresville will cut travel time to an emergency room for residents in a booming tri-county area that includes Camby, Decatur Township and Heartland Crossing, along with Mooresville and Plainfield.” The Plainfield center, he noted, “helps form the regional network along with the expansion of the Mooresville facility.”
The majority of the expansion is scheduled to open in April, with the new emergency department and medical office building, which will house the new offices of the Center for Hip & Knee Surgery, opening later in the year.
The project is expanding the Mooresville building from 258,000 to about 400,000 square feet. “Besides the addition of 142,000 square feet, the project includes extensive renovation in other areas,” Smith wrote.
Smith went on to detail the services provided at the Plainfield center and provided additional details of plans for the expanded Mooresville hospital. He also covered some of the hospital’s recent history.
The full article is available at:
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008801050316
