The Lexington Medical Center Foundation began a $3 million fundraising initiative to build a surgical center at Wake Forest Baptist Health-Lexington (S.C.) Medical Center, The Dispatch reports.
Here's what you should know:
1. The surgery center will have four operating rooms, two consultation rooms and a post-anesthesia care unit.
2. The health system will break ground on the facility June 13.
3. Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center CEO Julie A. Freischlag called the surgery center a necessity. She said surgical services increased 12 percent over the past two years, with surgeons performing 3,500 procedures in the 2017 fiscal year.
She said, "It was obvious that they needed bigger and better operating rooms, so we suggested that this would be a good project [for the hospital]."
4. The new surgery rooms will be able to accommodate joint replacement procedures. The current hospital only has one operating room large enough to perform joint replacements. Administrators believe the surgical center will also reduce scheduling woes.