[Photo: CCMC]FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – The Clovis Community Medical Centers announces a $390-million dollar expansion.
The Medical Centers’ Board of Trustees approved a four-year construction project that will add 144 private beds and expand several services.
The 190,000-square-foot expansion project will feature a five-story bed tower and will add 15,000 square feet to the hospital’s emergency room, create six additional operating rooms, 24 additional ICU beds, and expand the hospital’s radiology, pharmacy and laboratory services along with the kitchen and dining areas.
The project also will include an additional parking structure and a two-story, 60,000-square-foot clinical and administrative support building.
“We need to significantly expand inpatient capacity in our hospital system, and this Clovis project is the quickest and most cost-effective way to do it,” said Tim Joslin, Community’s president and CEO.
When the project is completed in 2022, Clovis Community will have 352 all-private inpatient beds while providing jobs for an additional 420 nurses, therapists, technicians and support staff.
It is expected to be completed in 2022 and the work will begin next month.
Community anticipates the expansion project to employ some 2,500 construction workers, the overwhelming majority of them local.
Funding for the expansion will come from Community’s operations and from donations.
