Marmerstein said the hospital has seen an increase in births.
“[We] want to make sure that we don’t run into any capacity challenges as those services in the community are needed,” Marmerstein said.
The renovations to the postpartum space will be around $19 million, Marmerstein said.
“We have a floor that exists beneath our existing labor and delivery and postpartum area,” Marmerstein said. “We’re going to build out half of that floor to encompass what will be additional postpartum rooms, additional nursery space, and additional education and support space for the maternal-child health program.”
The hospital is also undergoing around $5 million in general updates and renovations that will be completed in the first quarter of 2023, Marmerstein said.
“About $2.5 million of that is reorganization and expansion of a few of our existing operating suites, making the rooms larger to better accommodate higher acuity surgeries that require more people and more equipment,” Marmerstein said. “We are also reinvesting in several of the supporting pieces of equipment that we need to utilize in the [operating room], and the sterile processing department where we sanitize, sterilize and reorganize all of our surgical instruments—we’re making some updates to that area as well.”
