Unprecedented patient numbers during COVID-19 surges persuaded hospital officials to expand the number of beds at the new downtown hospital.
After weathering two-plus pandemic years, Indiana University Health officials said Monday that they have expanded the scope of their new downtown hospital just south of IU Health Methodist, now planning a $2.31 billion facility with 864 beds.
All rooms in the trio of nine-story inpatient towers will be private rooms. The rooms will be large enough to transform into critical care rooms should there be more patient demand for that type of care than medical-surgical care, for which rooms can be smaller. The downtown hospital is just one of many projects IU Health has underway, including doubling the size of itsThe Medical DistrictThe front door of the hospital building will be on Senate Avenue, and the building will stretch from that street to Capitol Avenue to the east. Across Capitol Avenue will be an outpatient medical building, called Capitol View.
Initial plans had called for a grocery store, and that may still happen, but if it does, it’s likely to be a smaller store, Mladucky said. Now, IU Health officials say they’re exploring the idea of a grocery store a little bit to the north of the campus. IU Health has been partnering with developers in the area to bring more affordable housing to the neighborhood to ensure that people who currently live there and could potentially be pushed out are not left without a home, Wojciechowski said.
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