In July, Geisinger announced plans to build an $880 million, 11-story expansion to its main-campus hospital in Danville, a structure that will drastically change the appearance of the 110-year old hospital and alter care provided there, hospital officials announced. Roadwork to reroute traffic patterns at the hospital is well underway with the main expansion project scheduled to begin in 2025. It will begin with the planned demolition of Dickey Clinic to make room for the 11-story tower, which will be designed to mirror the Hospital for Advanced Medicine on the rear of the hospital.
Tower construction will occur in phases with the new building slated to open in 2028. In May, the health system also broke ground on a new Geisinger Behavioral Health Center Danville on grounds formerly owned by the Sisters of Sts. Cyrils and Methodius, nearest to Maria Hall.
Construction has been ongoing throughout the second half of 2024 and the 96-bed behavioral hospital is set to open in the spring of 2025. The last expansion on the campus occurred in 2010 with the opening of the advanced medicine hospital. The new tower will feature a larger emergency room to serve more patients and provide a more efficient flow of care, officials said.
The new ER will double the square footage of the current space and increase it from 45 beds to 60 beds. Updated and expanded intensive care units and operating suites will surround the ER to allow collaboration between teams as they care for the patients right.