In early 2007, Harrison Memorial Hospital completed a $15 million, 45,000 square foot expansion and renovation. This expansion project happened for two reasons. First, the hospital simply had outgrown its existing facility. But more importantly, it recognized a need to provide additional space for new and expanded programs dealing with heart, cancer, stroke, respiratory disease and diabetes.
- As the need for outpatient services continues to grow, our existing operating rooms were incompatible with outpatient surgical needs. Our new OR suites provide for greater efficiency and room for more medical technology.
- We doubled the size of our Emergency Department, allowing us to continue to see greater numbers of urgent and emergent patient cases each year. There's greater patient privacy and patient wait times that are currently about one half the national average.
- We expanded our radiology services to do away with mobile MRI technology. Our new equipment allows for a near instant imaging that can be read from the hospital's computer system to virtually anywhere worldwide.
- Our new chemotherapy/infusion therapy suites are an added benefit to our partnership with University of Kentucky's Markey Cancer Center. Now patients no longer have to travel great distances to receive treatments multiple times per week.
- More room was added for technology that will provide better care for cardiac patients. With a heart attack, time is of the essence. Having better diagnostic technology closer to home means a better outcome for heart patients.
- One key to a successful future for Harrison Memorial Hospital is its ability to deliver cutting-edge women's health services, with amenities found in larger hospitals. Our new Elizabeth Bailey Women's Health Center does that an more. We encourage you to visit the hospital and receive a tour of this most impressive area, which rivals the best in the country.
- The Hospital also saw a need to expand rehabilitation services. This not only allows us to expand the number patients we treat with physical, occupational and speech therapy, but also allows us to provide new programs which center around the treatment of pulmonary disease, stroke and diabetes.
- As with any aging structures, Harrison Memorial Hospital was in need of upgrading and replacing nearly all of the facility's mechanical and electrical systems, which were nearly 40 years old at the time of the expansion. The project allowed the Hospital to do just that.
So how were the funds raised to finance such an endeavor? Learn about our community-wide capital campaign.
