Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Novant Health broke ground Tuesday on a $60 million renovation and addition to its 50-year-old Charlotte Orthopedic Hospital at Caswell and Randolph roads.
The hospital has scaled back its plans since announcing in 2011 that it would build an $84 million hospital in a new location at Fifth and Caswell.
Instead of a new location and a new building, the hospital will remain at Caswell and Randolph, and the project will be split into two phases. The first phase includes a three-story, 89,000-square-foot building with 32 patient rooms, to be completed by November 2017. It will have also seven operating rooms and space for rehabilitation and pre-operative clinics.
The second phase will include renovating 85,000-square-feet of existing space for an outpatient surgery center. That is scheduled for completion in November 2018.
The current Presbyterian Orthopaedic hospital was built by a hotel company and later converted to an extended care facility. In 1976, a group of orthopedic surgeons transformed it into Orthopaedic Hospital of Charlotte. Then, in 1993, Presbyterian purchased 50 percent of the hospital, and the name was changed to Presbyterian Orthopaedic Hospital. In 1998, Novant Health, Presbyterian’s parent company, assumed full ownership.
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