More hospital beds — and thousands of jobs — will arrive in Gwinnett County, GA, in the form of new, $400 million facilities.
Northside Hospital Gwinnett officials provided details on the Lawrenceville location’s expansion at the construction site, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
A new 10-story tower will add 132 inpatient beds, increasing the inpatient capacity of Northside Hospital Gwinnett to 520. The expansion will also include a five-story, 143,828-square-foot medical office building to house outpatient imaging. The construction completion date is scheduled for 2025.
Debbie Mitcham, the CEO and president of Northside Hospital Gwinnett and Duluth said the tower will provide much-needed hospital beds in the second-most populous county in the state.
“To be a partner with the county, we have to build the infrastructure, to make sure that the patients can be treated here and not have to leave the county for health care,” Mitcham told the newspaper. Read more.
