MT. VERNON — — The Crossroads Community Hospital expansion is entering its final months, on track for construction to be completed by the end of June. “With construction completed at the end of June, if the state inspection works out early, we could be in by the end of August,” said Ed Cunningham, Crossroads chief executive officer. According to Project Superintendent Steve Shults with Hoar Construction, work is being completed now on the exterior, which will be finished within the next two weeks. “There will still be some finishing touches outside, but the majority of the work will be done,” Shults said. But work inside is moving quickly, with crews working on all three floors and the roof. “They are finishing the third floor fireproofing now, there was some delay because of weather,” Cunningham said. “It has to be applied at a certain temperature, but now they have caught up.
On the second floor, the sheet rock will be completed in the next few weeks, about the first half of March.” Cunningham said all new equipment has been purchased for the expansion, and installation is expected the second week of June. “Since we bought new equipment, there will be no down time,” Cunningham explained. “We have new beds, new IV pumps, a new monitoring system in the hospital and radiology, we can open the new section, turn everything on, then turn off the old with a seamless transition.” Some of the features in the $20 million expansion project are cutting edge, including a pneumatic tube system to take lab specimens from patient floors to the lab area. full story
