Salem Township Hospital broke ground on Wednesday on a $16-million renovation and expansion project. Hospital CEO Jim Timpe says the three-phase project is scheduled to be completed in August 2027.
“This project is going to include expanding our emergency department to eight beds, including a new psychiatric treatment room to ensure patient safety for that vulnerable population,” Timpe said. “Expanding our OR from two rooms to four rooms with state-of-the-art overhead surgical systems, as well as twelve new bays in the same-day surgery area with walls between the patients, as well as four new recovery rooms. An addition of nearly 3000 square feet to accommodate sterile processing within the main OR for the first time since we opened.”
Shores Construction of Centralia is the general contractor. The hospital has worked the past year with BSA Architect and Engineers on the design of the project which came in a million dollars under the original estimate.
Timpe says the project builds on state-of-the-art improvements made to the hospital over the last 20 years starting with a new front lobby, bistro, Chapel, and Linda Mobley Community Room. That project also included a brand-new lab, physical therapy and administrative offices. Other projects that have followed are updates to medical/surgical and ICU as well as new clinic spaces on the first floor. The rural health clinic was most recently completed, which includes RHC Urgent Care, Primary Care and Behavioral Health as well as a new front parking area.
Hospital board members break ground. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Visualizations of the planned renovations at Salem Township Hospital. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
