UAMS Approves Multi-Million Dollar Upgrade Plan
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Officials at UAMS have approved
168-point-eight million dollar plan to upgrade patient rooms
and facilities at the hospital
Trustees approved the plan yesterday after Chancellor I. Dodd
Wilson said that without the upgrades the hospital`s future is
bleak. Wilson said patients deserve better, describing 50-year-old
patient rooms with worn pipes and wiring and small double-occupancy
areas.
About 145 million dollars will be used to build an addition
to the medical center. Thirteen million will replace a student
residence hall and ten million dollars to add a one thousand
space parking deck.
The project would increase the hospital`s capacity from 277 beds
to 375. Plans are still up in the air as to what to do with the
older buildings once the new facilities are built.
