Officials at Vanderbilt today announced a major donation helping pay for an expansion to the Monroe Carrell Jr. Children’s Hospital. It’s one of several building projects currently planned or underway at medical facilities in Nashville.
The Children’s Hospital is adding on 30,000 square feet of space, including room for 33 more patient beds. Adding the new area will allow the hospital to admit more sick and premature babies to its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Dollar General is donating a million dollars towards the project. The hospital previously estimated construction costs would total nearly $30 million.
Last week, St. Thomas Hospital got state approval to renovate its cardiac surgery suite—a project that carries a more than $10 million price tag. And now Baptist Hospital is asking for state permission to add a new corridor and renovate its medical imaging and cardiac areas at a cost of about $15 million.
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