HCA Florida Citrus Hospital is pouring $10 million into a modernization project at the 204-bed facility, including its second floor medical area and patient rooms, the Citrus County Chronicle reports.
HCA Citrus Florida is also investing an additional $8 million upgrading its operating rooms and enlarging them to house surgical equipment for the procedures.
The hospital is spending an additional $5.5 million for a new, fourth catheterization laboratory and a computed tomography scanner, or CT scan.
According to Health Facilities Management, patient satisfaction makes up 86 percent of the decision-making factor in facility design once a project is funded.
At the end of 2017, more than 15,000 health care construction projects were underway in the United States. The following year saw a 3.5% growth in health care for construction projects, according the American Institute of Architects.
Post pandemic, projects are well underway and major hospital renovations are being announced throughout the country. The most common renovations are emergency department upgrades, operating rooms, hospital pharmacies and patient rooms. Read more.
