Hospital’s $160 million expansion begins in Nashville

08/05/2009

By Candy McCampbell

Centennial Medical Center in Nashville is starting a $30 million addition of its Sarah Cannon Cancer Center that is the first of a three-phase, $160 million expansion at the hospital.

Brasfield & Gorrie of Birmingham, Ala., is general contractor and Earl Swensson Associates of Nashville is architect. Work will start in mid-August and be completed in August 2010.

The first phase involves an 8,500-sq-ft addition to the existing building, including a two-story lobby with registration and pre-admission testing areas, a new entrance and patient drop-off area.

Another 31,500 sq ft of existing space will be renovated to provide a new surgical suite with four operating rooms, pre-operative and post-operative areas, central sterile processing suite, an imaging center and a new satellite lab and pharmacy.

The center will also get a 1,500-sq-ft landscaped healing garden.

The Sarah Cannon Cancer Center, named for the late Grand Ole Opry comedienne known publicly as Minnie Pearl, is a diagnostic and treatment center that uses surgery, radiation oncology, chemotherapy and immunotherapy for patients.

It will have designated areas for blood and marrow transplantation, hematological malignancy, medical oncology and surgical oncology.

The center also houses the Sarah Cannon Research Institute that conducts clinical trials of medicines and treatments for cancer.

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