IU HEALTH WEST ENHANCING CAPACITY AND SERVICES WITH VERTICAL EXPANSION PROJECT Writer / Berkley Rios Photography Provided
Since late 2017, team members at IU Health West Hospital have been working diligently to open the hospital’s $84 million vertical expansion project. The new expansion includes an additional 48 inpatient beds, a catheterization lab, two operating rooms, an inpatient dialysis unit, a new space for inpatient pharmacy services, and new kitchen and classroom areas. The expansion also includes additional parking.
president of IU Health West Hospital. “Data we used to green-light the expansion showed we were having to transfer 1,700 patients a year who had come to IU Health West for their care to other facilities, because we could not get that patient a bed in a timely fashion. The demand for IU Health-level quality care was there. We had to grow to meet that demand.”
With the new additions, the hospital’s inpatient capacity has increased by “Our community is growing by more than 50%. The new 14leaps and bounds - Hendricks bed intensive care unit and catheterization lab opened in County continues to be the second fastest-growing county September, and are located on the new fourth floor. in the state, and our ability to provide care to all the patients who need us has in the past Not only did the hospital been challenged by our expand its walls, but also its capacity,” says Paul Ivkovich, services. The new four-bay
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