Mercy Health-Rookwood Medical Center on Edwards Road in Oakley which opens July 2, and has an open house on Saturday. Photo shot Thursday June 27, 2013.
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What do you think about the look of the new Rookwood Medical Center?
a) Love it!
b) It’s okay
c) No opinion
d) Really? What were they thinking? Too gawdy.
e) Hate it.
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NORWOOD — Mercy Health Rookwood Medical Center opens Saturday – a blue-and-white beacon meant to draw patients and attention to the region’s newest emergency facility.
The more than $14 million, 24,000-square-foot medical center will host a public open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. It officially opens for business at 7 a.m. Tuesday at the northwest corner of Edwards Road and Williams Avenue, just off Interstate-71.
and will open officially on Tuesday at 7 a.m. and include offices for Mercy Health physicians and cardiologists.
“It’s emergency care right in the neighborhood,” said Nanette Bentley, a spokeswoman for Mercy Health.
The center is expected pull in up to 18,000 patients each year, serving mostly residents of Hyde Park, Mariemont, Mount Lookout, Norwood and Oakley, making emergency care available to them “in minutes, not miles,” Bentley added.
The blue-and-white tiled center can’t be missed by drivers on I-71 or nearby neighborhood residents – a purposeful design feature by Downtown-based GBBN architects, Bentley said. The colors are the same as highway signs indicating a hospital.
“It’s emergency care. We need it to be visible so people know it’s there,” she said. “Seconds count in an emergency, and we wanted to be quite obvious that we’re there.”
The investment is part of a more than $400 million building boom under way by Mercy Health, as it jostles for market share in an increasingly competitive local health care landscape.
In Sycamore Township, Mercy’s Jewish Hospital is expected to undergo a multimillion-dollar makeover that will update its campus with a new patient tower and expanded services for intensive care, heart and cancer treatments.
In Green Township, the health system is investing $270 million in Mercy West – a new hospital that will bring maternity, cancer care and open heart surgery not before offered by Mercy Health to the west side of Hamilton County. That facility, which has a similar tiled-exterior, but in earth tones, is expected to open in November.
The health group is spending $70 million to add a six-story patient tower at Mercy Anderson on State Road. And in Batavia, it recently completed a $2.5 million update to its hospital’s emergency room.
Meanwhile, Mercy Health says it’s still considering plans for two existing hospitals in Westwood and Mount Airy. Early talks are under way with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office about alternative uses for the Mount Airy property, but the conversations are “very preliminary,” Bentley said.
“We’ve committed to keeping services (at the Westwood site) ... but have not finalized our plans,” she added.
The new Rookwood Medical Center is expected to employ more than 50 doctors, nurses and other staff. Its emergency department will operate 24 hours, seven days a week.
“Any time you have a first-class medical facility in your neighborhood, it’s a big win,” said Thomas Williams, Norwood’s mayor. “Then, when you put it in that location, it’s another win and perfect fit.”⬛
The more than $14 million, 24,000-square-foot medical center will host a public open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. It officially opens for business at 7 a.m. Tuesday at the northwest corner of Edwards Road and Williams Avenue, just off Interstate-71.
and will open officially on Tuesday at 7 a.m. and include offices for Mercy Health physicians and cardiologists.
“It’s emergency care right in the neighborhood,” said Nanette Bentley, a spokeswoman for Mercy Health.
The center is expected pull in up to 18,000 patients each year, serving mostly residents of Hyde Park, Mariemont, Mount Lookout, Norwood and Oakley, making emergency care available to them “in minutes, not miles,” Bentley added.
The blue-and-white tiled center can’t be missed by drivers on I-71 or nearby neighborhood residents – a purposeful design feature by Downtown-based GBBN architects, Bentley said. The colors are the same as highway signs indicating a hospital.
“It’s emergency care. We need it to be visible so people know it’s there,” she said. “Seconds count in an emergency, and we wanted to be quite obvious that we’re there.”
The investment is part of a more than $400 million building boom under way by Mercy Health, as it jostles for market share in an increasingly competitive local health care landscape.
In Sycamore Township, Mercy’s Jewish Hospital is expected to undergo a multimillion-dollar makeover that will update its campus with a new patient tower and expanded services for intensive care, heart and cancer treatments.
In Green Township, the health system is investing $270 million in Mercy West – a new hospital that will bring maternity, cancer care and open heart surgery not before offered by Mercy Health to the west side of Hamilton County. That facility, which has a similar tiled-exterior, but in earth tones, is expected to open in November.
The health group is spending $70 million to add a six-story patient tower at Mercy Anderson on State Road. And in Batavia, it recently completed a $2.5 million update to its hospital’s emergency room.
Meanwhile, Mercy Health says it’s still considering plans for two existing hospitals in Westwood and Mount Airy. Early talks are under way with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office about alternative uses for the Mount Airy property, but the conversations are “very preliminary,” Bentley said.
“We’ve committed to keeping services (at the Westwood site) ... but have not finalized our plans,” she added.
The new Rookwood Medical Center is expected to employ more than 50 doctors, nurses and other staff. Its emergency department will operate 24 hours, seven days a week.
“Any time you have a first-class medical facility in your neighborhood, it’s a big win,” said Thomas Williams, Norwood’s mayor. “Then, when you put it in that location, it’s another win and perfect fit.”⬛
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