Erlanger Health System’s new children’s outpatient center is on track to open its doors this December, and leadership is now looking toward the hospital’s next phase.
“Some of our facilities are not what we would hope to see,” said Bruce Komiske, Erlanger’s vice president of new hospital design and construction, as he addressed the board Thursday during its monthly meeting.
The new outpatient center was Erlanger’s first step in elevating its main campus to contemporary standards.
Komiske wasn’t seeking board approval – just feedback – for the next phase, which he called “the most important phase in the near-term history of Erlanger.”
The idea is to build a 12-story tower between the west and east wings off the hospital. Patient rooms would be universal size to accommodate more than just children in the future, adding 216 new rooms and renovating 100 more, which would modernize more than half of the patient rooms at Erlanger.