10 things you probably didn't know about the Pavilions Project...

1. Planning for the Pavilions Project actually started more than a decade Planning for the Pavilions Project actually started more than a decade ago. In December of 1994, the Board of Trustees approved a “master plan” to include the Comprehensive Cancer Center, the parking garage, and the South Pavilion. It wasn’t until 2000 that the Forest Pavilion was added when it was recognized that there was a future need for more patient beds to meet growing community needs.
2. The last time beds were added to the hospital was 35 years ago, in 1971.
3. The Forest Pavilion is the fififi rst new patient wing since 1968.
4. When all is said and done, we will have taken a hospital that was approximately 317,500 square feet and created a 515,500 square-foot facility, increasing the size of Community Hospital by 62 percent. This is the single largest construction project ever undertaken at this hospital since it was built.
5. The original hospital atop Carmel Hill cost about 28 cents a square foot to build. Now it costs more than $750 a square foot.
6. The existing patient rooms range in size from about 155-175 square feet. The new patient rooms in the Forest Pavilion will range from 280-350 square feet.
7. The existing inpatient operating rooms range from 340-420 square feet. The new operating rooms? They are 605-670 square feet, the largest being the cardiac surgery rooms.
8. A 6-foot Japanese maple will be the centerpiece for the Healing Garden, located between the existing hospital and the Forest Pavilion and complete with a waterfall. The maple tree had to be hoisted and dropped into place by a crane.
9. The roof of the three-story South Pavilion is made of (heavily reinforced) concrete that is 12 inches thick.
10. One of the appliances that will be included in the renovated hospital kitchen is a three tiered oven that weighs more than 1,900 pounds.