COLUMBUS, Ohio — Mount Carmel Health System, a fixture in Franklinton for more than a century, is moving its inpatient hospital to Grove City, taking 1,500 jobs with it.
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According to a report in the Columbus Dispatch, the move will take place in 2018 as part of a $711 million investment at Mt. Carmel’s West, East and Grove City campuses.
The hospital would leave about 300 jobs behind in the Franklinton neighborhood where it has had a presence for nearly 130 years.
The planned expansion includes a $355 million 210-bed hospital with seven floors of clinical services (above) in Grove City, where many of Mount Carmel’s more-profitable patients live.
The company also plans to invest $310 million in a 128-bed tower at Mt. Carmel East that will allow all the rooms on that hospital campus to become private rooms.
It also includes $46 million for demolition, as well as altering and updating existing buildings, on the Mount Carmel West campus, through 2020.
The major restructuring of the hospital system will leave the Mt. Carmel West campus with about 300 jobs and a 24-hour emergency department, the growing College of Nursing, and a Community Health Resource Center.