Delays with the 52,000-square foot expansion project for Greene County Medical Center have pushed back its opening date.

The anticipated date was mid-to-late July, but now it is slated for late August.  Chief Executive Officer Carl Behne explains what led to the delay.

“We had a couple areas in the medical center, one the new building connecting to the 1937 (building) where some mechanical changes needed to happen.  And then also back in the surgery department, there were some measurements of equipment that had to be made after the equipment got installed and that equipment couldn’t be installed until other pieces of equipment were here and installed and those got delayed.”

However, the public got a chance to see upclose the progress of the project over the weekend with tours of the facility.  Attendees got to see the new radiology, nursing, emergency and surgery departments along with the obstetrics department and inpatient and outpatient areas.

The expansion also includes 25 acute care beds.  Five of those are private rooms with private bathrooms, two private special care rooms with bathrooms, two labor/delivery/recovery/postpartum rooms with bathrooms, eight rooms that can be used as double inpatient rooms and eight pre and post surgery rooms.

Construction on the $22.5 million project began in April of 2014.  Updated pictures can be found below: