Tampa Area Hospital Expanding

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. — Oak Hill Hospital has launched a new $50,000, 100,000-square-foot expansion and renovation project on its existing campus.

 

The project will include a two-story inpatient tower with 36 private rooms, construction of eight additional operating room suites, renovation of the existing endoscopy suites, replacement and expansion of the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit to include 18 beds, renovation and expansion of the Central Sterile Department, expansion of the power plant to accommodate the power needs of the larger campus and make it more energy efficient, and construction of a new patient and visitor parking lot.

 

Oak Hill is also currently adding 20 private telemetry rooms on its sixth floor at a cost of $6.5 million. That project is almost complete. The expansion project will add 75,000 square feet to the hospital. And additional 25,000 square feet will receive major renovations and another 7,000 will receive minor renovations.

 

The Oak Hill Hospital project is the largest health care expansion project Hernando County has seen. Once it is complete, the hospital will have 262 acute care beds — 61 percent of them private – making it the largest health care facility in Hernando and Citrus Counties. The additional capacity will help offset the shortage of space, which during peak times exceeds 100 percent of capacity.