Millcreek Community Hospital Commits to $10 Million Expansion Project

After months of strategic planning, Millcreek Community Hospital unveiled plans to increase its capacity to better serve the growing health care needs of Erie and surrounding communities for:

• Services for older adults
• Behavioral health care for adults and adolescents.

Construction began in October 2006 on a $10-million expansion to the hospital and its long term care facilities, which will increase the total beds in the system from 135 to 200. The combined projects will add 39,350 square feet, or 26% to our services.

Multiple New Facilities are underway

New facilities will include:

• A three-story addition to the southeast side of the hospital to include a 14-bed transitional care unit to serve patients who no longer need acute care, but are not well enough to return home. Patients often require this type of care following orthopedic procedures such as joint replacements, which are performed at Millcreek Community Hospital.
• An expanded ER to better handle acute medical and psychiatric emergencies.

• A fifth-floor addition to the main hospital tower for a 12-bed geriatric behavioral health care unit and an 18-bed child/adolescent psychiatric unit - currently, the only child/adolescent unit in Northwestern PA. The hospital s fourth floor will serve as a 32-bed general psychiatric unit.

Millcreek Community Hospital will continue to offer a full array of medical and diagnostic inpatient and outpatient services. It will further enhance and focus those services to make them even more accessible to seniors.

As the hospital itself turns 60 in 2008, we plan to be the premier facility for senior care, and also for inpatient behavioral health care. In both areas, there s been dramatic medical progress in improving the quality of life. We re very excited and proud to be at the forefront in providing these services.

Track our progress. Click on the articles to the right to see the photos.