BOYNTON BEACH, Fla (Palm Beach Post) — It has been a long wait, but the communities west of Boynton Beach will soon have a hospital to call their own.
Workers are scheduled to break ground in late spring or early summer on the $130 million, 80-bed Bethesda West Hospital. Construction is expected to take about three years, with a grand opening in the spring of 2013.
The nonprofit hospital, which will be built on 58 acres at the northeast corner of Boynton Beach Boulevard and U.S. 441, will serve as a satellite campus for the 401-bed Bethesda Memorial Hospital to the east.
“We’ve been talking about it for ten years,” said Robert Hill, CEO of Bethesda, who spoke at today’s meeting of the Coalition of Boynton West Residential Associations. “I can’t wait to stop talking about it and get some dirt moving.”
Hill said that the hospital will be the first all-electronic hospital in the county, with features such as electronic medical records, digital imaging and voice recognition software.
The first phase of construction, which is expected to cost $130 million, calls for a 210,000-square-foot hospital with 80 beds in a five-story patient tower, with plans to expand over time to 400 beds. There also will be separate medical office buildings on the property, which are scheduled to open in 2011. The hospital will share the same medical staff with Bethesda Memorial Hospital, but will have 300 separate full-time employees and volunteers.
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SOURCE: Palm Beach Post
