Bend, Ore. – St. Charles Bend embarks on a new $66 million project. A new patient tower will be built on its northeast campus.
The large construction undertaking will double its number of intensive care unit beds by 2018, and reduce the need to send patients to Portland instead.
According to Bob Gomes, CEO of St. Charles Bend and Redmond, with the growth of Central Oregon and an expansion into more complex surgeries at the hospital, the current facility is consistently facing capacity issues for both critical and inpatient beds.
The new tower will almost double the critical care capacity to between 32 and 36 beds.
The new facility will also require additional staffing. CEO Gomes said the hospital plans to hire 30 to 40 additional nurses and a handful of new physicians to meet the demand.
