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| Artist conceptual drawing of new hospital |
The Franklin County
Board of Commissioners recently selected Culpepper Construction of Thomasville
as the construction manager to oversee the $10 million renovation of the Weems
Memorial Hospital project. Now that the contract is in place, hospital officials
say the design process will be finalized and groundbreaking for the new
facility is expected by the end of the year with an anticipated completion date
projected for 2017.
The proposed plan calls
for the replacement of the emergency department, radiology suite and inpatient
nursing unit. The new facility will be constructed on the eastern side of the
Hospital and include 10-12 private inpatient rooms with individual shower and
restrooms, an emergency department with triage, four exam rooms and a radiology
suite with CT and radiology/fluoroscopy rooms. Procedure services will remain
in the existing location with some cosmetic upgrades. Also remaining in the existing facility will
be pharmacy, laboratory, respiratory, physical therapy and dietary services. An
expansion of physical therapy to include outpatient physical therapy is planned
in the existing space.
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