Mount Carmel Invests $700 Million in Hospital Projects

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Mount Carmel Health System recently announced it is investing more than $700 million in central Ohio with major projects at three Mount Carmel campuses: Mount Carmel East, Mount Carmel Grove City and Mount Carmel West.

"These projects are part of our work to move health care delivery forward in our role as the region’s value leader in delivering better health, better care for an affordable cost,” said Claus von Zychlin, president and CEO of Mount Carmel Health System, in a statement.

Mount Carmel East will begin a $310 million modernization project in spring 2015 to be completed in phases through 2019, according to the health system. The project will improve on all aspects of the current facility, which was established in 1969, and will make accessing the campus easier through numerous infrastructure improvements. When complete, Mount Carmel East will be a nearly 400-bed, all-private room facility.

The project will also include the construction of a new five-story patient care tower with a new state-of-the-art surgical suite and 128 new all-private, acuity adaptable patient rooms as well as the complete renovation of the original 1969 bed tower to provide 112 all-private patient rooms. In addition, Mount Carmel East will become home to Mount Carmel’s level II trauma program.

At Mount Carmel Grove City, a $355 million investment will expand the full service hospital by 2018, barely a year after the original facility first opened. Mount Carmel Grove City will be the first hospital in the market south of the Interstate 70 corridor. This project will include an approximately 500,000-square-foot inpatient hospital and 120,000-square-foot medical office building.

The new hospital will feature 210 private rooms and seven floors of clinical service, including inpatient and outpatient surgery, intensive care, a mother-infant unit, oncology and palliative care, and expanded emergency services. The five-story medical office building will include a number of services including comprehensive outpatient oncology, women’s health, maternal fetal medicine and other physician offices. The campus will also be the new headquarters for Mount Carmel’s Graduate Medical Education (GME).

Mount Carmel Grove City will maintain its existing emergency and outpatient services during construction. After construction is completed in Grove City, Mount Carmel West’s inpatient operations will transfer to Grove City and the West campus will undergo a $46 million transformation.

The existing nearly 130-year old Mount Carmel West campus in Franklinton will be transformed into a health and educational campus. The hospital will focus on primary care, urgent and emergent care and will include a 24-hour emergency department. The transformation will expand on the efforts of the Mount Carmel Community Health Resource Center (CHRC).

“We’re excited to build upon the city of Columbus’ revitalization efforts that are already underway in Franklinton. The contemporary and welcoming campus will do more than promote and foster healthy living and healthy lives. It will be designed to attract additional services and activities — commercial, residential and social — that together will inspire hope, expand opportunity and create a diverse and central gathering place for the extended community,” von Zychlin said in a statement.