Hospitals Open Patient Towers in Tennessee, Florida

Two Florida and Tennessee hospitals have opened major patient-tower expansions to increase capacity and specialty-care services. Boca Raton Regional Hospital’s eight-story, 427,000-square-foot Gloria Drummond Patient Tower adds 216 private rooms, 20 operating rooms and expanded surgical, cardiovascular and neuroscience services, bringing the hospital to 561 licensed beds—the most in Palm Beach County. Parkridge Medical Center in Chattanooga opened an 88,000-square-foot, three-story tower with 50 rooms, including 16 ICU rooms and 34 medical/surgical rooms for orthopedic and spine patients. Parkridge says the added capacity responds to growing emergency-room demand and includes space for future expansion.