Work has been completed on additional isolation rooms for inpatients at Salem Township Hospital.
Interim Hospital President Lisa Ambuehl announced the completion of the $400,000 grant fund project at this week’s hospital board meeting.
“With the completion of the negative pressure rooms that will allow us to have more negative air isolation for people that have an upper respiratory air born disease process. So with adding 8 more rooms that gives us 13 rooms with negative air.”
Ambuehl says the need for the rooms was found during COVID-19.
She also reported BSI Architects of Indiana have started plans for renovation of the emergency and operating rooms on the lower level of the hospital now that Rural Health has moved to its new location in the renovated A wing. Ambuehl anticipates it will take six months to complete the plans and any further work will require approval from the hospital board. She doesn’t expect construction to begin until after 2025.
Hospital CFO Amy Grey reported net operating revenue of $983,000 in April, slightly above budget. Virtually all hospital departments operated above budget projections in what Grey said was an overall very good month.
