Last Week's Meeting
Paul N. Olivier, vice president of Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley, updated Rotarians on the progress of the Beeghly Campus emergency room expansion in Boardman. It’s a $25 million project with significant donor support.
Akron Children’s acquired the former Tod Children’s Hospital in 2008 and completed a new medical office building in 2017. The ER was deemed to be too small, and so a 30,000 square foot addition is underway. The expansion will increase the number of treatment rooms, add consultation rooms for staff and families to meet, increase space to treat patients who experience behavioral health issues, and improve the nursing station and provider areas. Construction should be complete in about 1 year.
More than 33,000 patients were treated in 2021 at Akron Children’s Beeghly Campus, Olivier noted.
Olivier credited Rotarian C. Reid Schmutz, a member of Akron Children’s Foundation Board of Directors, with securing donations for the ER expansion.
Additional contributions will be welcomed, and construction site tours will be offered later this year, Olivier said
