SJ Commission On Board With Lakeland Expansion

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A $160 million expansion to Lakeland Medical Center in St. Joseph is moving forward following a Monday meeting of the St. Joseph City Commission. Commissioners granted planned unit development status to the Lakeland Medical Center Pavilion from Lakeland Facilities Director Dan Bacchiocchi, who said the addition will improve things for patients.

“It will allow us to right size the spaces, and also to co-locate them so the patient experience is very central to one location versus them having to be transported throughout the hospital as would currently be done,” Bacchiocchi told WSJM News.

Lakeland plans to add a five-story pavilion with medical and surgical suites, a short stay unit, imaging centers, an intensive care unit, education and community rooms, and a new entrance. Ground could be broken next month with the project being finished in 2020.