Kettering Well being Wilmington Well being Heart, positioned at 1500 Rombach Ave. in Wilmington, is increasing right into a medical heart providing inpatient and outpatient providers, the hospital system stated.
Kettering Well being anticipates the middle will probably be absolutely open by the top of 2026 and can double the footprint of the present facility to about 71,000 sq. ft. It's a $90 million funding, Kettering Well being stated.
Kettering Well being Wilmington will increase major care providers on the present facility with hospital beds, surgical providers, emergency care, specialty care, full-service imaging and infusion for most cancers remedy.
“I’m grateful for our partnership with Wilmington management. Your advocacy and help will allow Kettering Well being to offer high-quality, compassionate healthcare to fulfill the present and future wants of its residents,” Gentry stated.
Kettering Well being Wilmington Well being Heart opened in 2023 and is Kettering Well being's first funding in Wilmington.
Wilmington can also be house to a free-standing hospital, Clinton Memorial Hospital, a 141-bed hospital positioned in downtown Wilmington, about 2.5 miles from the Kettering Well being facility.
Wilmington is about 35 miles southeast of downtown Dayton.
This announcement comes as Kettering Well being continues to make changes to its providers within the Miami Valley, together with closing its emergency room in Piqua earlier within the 12 months. On the $30 million Piqua facility, Kettering Well being expanded its major care providers within the north Dayton area.
In Xenia, Kettering Well being introduced new $44 million medical heart will change the present Kettering Well being Greene Memorial, though this transfer lacked help from metropolis officers and led to a brief moratorium on freestanding emergency rooms.
Kettering Well being has 14 space medical facilities and greater than 120 outpatient areas all through western Ohio, in addition to the Kettering Doctor Community, which incorporates greater than 700 licensed suppliers.