Four details:
1. The project, which will also add three recovery beds in the post-anesthesia care unit, will add 4,590 square feet to the hospital and is expected to finish by the end of 2021.
2. The hospital will have 13 operating rooms. Hospital CEO Brian Fowler said the space is needed after the hospital added five surgeons last year.
3. The hospital has 18 physician owners practicing orthopedics, spine and pain management.
4. Arkansas Surgical Hospital has a 0.5 percent infection rate, below the national average of 3 percent, and was the only hospital in Arkansas named among Healthgrades’ 100 best U.S. hospitals for spine surgery in 2020.
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