Growth and Progress

Many changes are underway at the hospital to update the facilities and continually improve patient care.

Planned Features and Services

• Robotic surgery
• Cardiac CT
• eICU® connection to Saint Joseph's Atlanta
• Mammography and stereo-tactic surgery
• Patient rooms with the latest features in patient and visitor safety, satisfaction, comfort, and staff efficiency and satisfaction
• Separate pavilions for ambulatory services, emergency room, patient rooms, procedure areas, and core service areas
• Full service emergency room with dedicated ER physicians
• Hospitalists to assist community primary care physicians and surgeons
• All primary and secondary surgical and medical care
• Selected tertiary care
• Cutting-edge research protocols
• New physician recruitment
• Quality nursing staff
• Fast access to super-subspecialists in Atlanta and Athens; or when needed, smooth transport to either Atlanta or Athens
• Upgraded CT scanner
• Orthopaedics - possibly joint replacement
• Expanded general surgery capability
• Hospitalist services

Planned Design Features

• Advanced design features from Georgia Tech architecture school's "hospital of the future" design team
• Modern, upscale "green" design with a distinctive Lake Country look
• Extra-large, modern, surgery suites to accomodate sophisticated surgery
• Patient room design for maximum patient safety, staff efficiency, and visitor comfort
• Discrete "zones" in each patient room for staff, patient and visitors