GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Northeast Georgia Medical Center has expanded with the opening of the new Green Tower on its Gainesville campus.
The 927,000-square-foot, 11-story tower officially opened Saturday morning.
The tower’s ground floor houses the new emergency department.
“When people come to the new emergency department space in the Green Tower, they’re going to be in a much better environment,” said Mohak Davé, MD, chief of emergency medicine for NGHS. “The treatment spaces and waiting areas are beautiful, the registration and triage processes are streamlined and, overall, we expect to move people through faster than before.”
A helipad was built on the roof of the Green Tower, with dedicated elevators that take patients directly to the emergency department, operating rooms, or cardiac catheterization labs for lifesaving care.
The first floor is home to many Georgia Heart Institute services including cardiac testing, catheterization labs, and endovascular operating rooms.
The second floor adds five new operating rooms and is the new home of the intensive care unit.
The third floor houses all mechanical support for the tower.
The fourth floor features a coronary care unit, the cardiovascular intermediate care unit, and the fifth floor features a heart failure treatment unit.
The Green Tower opened with 96 inpatient care beds and there’s plenty of room to grow.
Floors six through nine are currently empty, but will eventually be built out as needed during the coming years.
Eventually, the tower will have more than 190 inpatient beds.
The project created more than 100 new jobs.
And with an expansion that large, they thought of parking, adding hundreds of new spaces in the nearby deck.
You can learn more at https://www.nghs.com/growing.
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