Who doesn’t know the name of Shawnee Mission Medical Center? It is a proficient Seventh-day Adventist hospital located in Merriam, Kansas and due to its excellence in various aspects of the medical world is known not only in Kansas but also across the US. Well, the hospital with its profound spiritual atmosphere provides succor to a patient in various ways. In addition to the hospital there is the presence of a free-standing outpatient surgery, a community health education building, five physician office buildings and an associate child care center.
Well, the same Shawnee Mission Medical Center has entered at this instant into a new phase with the commencement of its $112 million critical-care building. The initiation of the new building is, without a shred of doubt, a great success and has added new feathers into its cap. What is the area of the building? The new building is of 265,000-square-foot and doubles the hospital’s size, if not more and consists of 62 beds. It is to be noted that the hospital broke ground for the new facility in September 2005.
If you remember that Merriam-based Shawnee Mission Medical Center was opened 1962 on 4.3 acres of land and consisted, at that time, 65-bed acute care hospital and a medical office building. It can certainly be said, from the very beginning, the hospital, being the first suburban hospital in Johnson County, has been going on with full momentum. This persistent success has led to the modern enviable infrastructure.
On the contrary, at present, the same center has a 54-acre campus, which consists of a 383-bed hospital, an outpatient surgery center, a community health educational building, five medical office buildings and a community fitness course.
The hospital is a proud member of the Planetree Alliance and also the part of the Adventist Health System, the largest nonprofit Protestant health system of the nation.
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