St. Joseph’s Hospital on Savannah’s southside will undergo a $15 million renovation beginning Monday that will ready the iconic 43-year-old structure for the future.
“It’s an extreme makeover,” Paul P. Hinchey, St. Joseph’s/Candler president and CEO, said in announcing the plan on Wednesday. “This is a big, big project. … We wanted to have a structure that would last another 50 years.”
The system’s plan calls for $11 million in exterior work and $4 million for 220 patient rooms slated for the makeover.
Minimal interference for patients or hospital services is anticipated during the makeover, Hinchey said.
When the 21-month project is completed, the hospital will “be really something to look at,” he said, comparing it to the Jepson Center for the Arts downtown and the Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer and Research Pavilion on DeRenne Avenue.
The seven-story, 305-bed hospital on a 28-acre tract opened in 1970 under Sister Mary Cornile Dulohery, Sister of Mercy who headed the hospital from 1960-82, and who decided a new facility was needed to replace the original St. Joseph’s at Taylor and Habersham streets after 94 years.,,,,
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