Ground-breaking ceremonies for the new Walter R. Hoefflin Jr. wing were held recently. This opens phase two of the hospital's $22.7 million three-year-expansion and remodeling program.
Arcadia Methodist Hospital opened a new four-level parking structure this week, completing the first phase of its expansion. The second phase will include a 152,000 square feet, five-story patient tower, with a bridge connecting the top three floors to the existing Berger Patient Tower. The new North Tower, to be completed in 2010, will house a new emergency department, medical and surgical inpatient beds, two intensive care units, and a pharmacy.
The construction of private medical offices as part of the Methodist Hospital facility on property owned by the City of Arcadia has been an issue since 1953. The matter is subject to City Council approval as such construction may be in violation of the current terms of the 99 year lease held by the hospital.
Arcadia Methodist Hospital is seeking approval from the California Department of Health for a $15 million building program. Included would be a 3-story addition to house emergency services, remodeling, and a parking structure.
Arcadia Methodist Hospital now utilizes DOCENT, a communications computer program which automatically enters test results and other reports into the hospital's main computer as soon as they are processed by the laboratory, thereby eliminating the need for a technician or lab secretary to manually enter the data.
The new state-of-the-art surgical wing of Arcadia Methodist Hospital held a special blue ribbon ceremony prior to the public grand opening this weekend.
Arcadia Methodist Hospital has operated the Kathy Kredel Nursery School for the children of all hospital employees for 23 years. Their program is considered innovative.
Arcadia Methodist Hospital plans salute of Beach Vasey on his retirement as Board member. Judge Vasey served on the Board of Directors of hospital for 46 years and as its chairman in 1975 and 1976.
Methodist Hospital of Southern California, Arcadia, has received a $95,000 grant from the Atlantic Richfield Foundation to fund a mobile community health program.
With City Council's final approval of loan and bond agreements, the tax exempt bonds for Arcadia Methodist Hospital were freed to go on sale Wednesday, August 6.