Entrance to the new front addition to Salem Township Hospital.

The Illinois Department of Public Health has signed off on the occupancy permit for the new addition to Salem Township Hospital to open. 

Hospital President Stephanie Hilton-Siebert says as a result, the new front doors of the hospital will swing open next Monday morning. "The first level of the addition will be open which includes the business office, medical records, bistro and gift shop," she says. "Then we're looking at our clinical areas moving in the two weeks after that."

Hilton-Siebert says the open houses for the new addition as well as the rest of the hospital have been confirmed for April ninth and tenth.  On Friday morning, April ninth, senior citizens will be given tours.  Hospital staff and family will receive tours that afternoon.  On Saturday, April tenth, tours will be available for everyone from nine to three.   Hilton-Siebert says while in Springfield last week she was able to sit down with officials of the Department of Public Health and answer their remaining questions and brought home the signed occupancy permit with her.  She reports the small number of items the inspectors wanted changed prior to opening have all been completed. 

Work on the seven-million dollar addition to the hospital began with a ground breaking in December 2007.    Construction changes delayed the opening originally scheduled for last summer.  The front addition is the first of three phases of improvements to Salem Township Hospital. 

This is soon to be the office of Salem Township Hospital President Stephanie Hilton-Siebert in the new addition.

 

This is the new Community Room that will be available for organizations to meet and hold educational events. A pull down screen and computer viewing equipment is built into the room.