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First Posted: 5/30/2013 SCRANTON &#8212; Lackawanna County&#8217;s largest hospital is set to break ground on an $80 million expansion project that will increase the facility&#8217;s size by a third and reshape its look internally and externally.
On Monday, Geisinger-Community Medical Center will hold a formal ceremony during the afternoon for news media and invited guests and an open house for the public from 4-6 p.m. to detail the project that is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2015. The expansion will include an all-new, 14-bed operating suite, a new intensive care/critical care unit, an enhanced lobby that will extend to Mulberry Street and additional clinical and physician office space.
Hospital spokeswoman Wendy K. Wilson said that during construction &#8220;it will be business as usual on the inside. All services will continue throughout the entire length of the project.&#8221;
The project is part of a $158.6 million promise made by Danville-based Geisinger Health System that it made when it became affiliated with Community Medical Center in 2011.
 To date, it&#8217;s spent $20 million on upgrades to establish an electronic health records system and began a $25.7 million construction project to build a two-story, 46,700-square-foot medical office building at the Mount Pleasant Corporate Center in Scranton.
The remaining $14 million will be used on a yet-to-be-determined project, Wilson said.
&#8220;Our goal is to build this area&#8217;s most comprehensive and integrated health system and provide high-quality, advanced care so patients will not feel the need to leave town for great care,&#8221; said Bob Steigmeyer, the chief executive officer of Geisinger-Community Medical Center.
The work that will soon begin includes:
&#8226; Increasing the center&#8217;s size from 355,000 to 460,000 square feet
&#8226; A new Intensive Care Unit with 18 private rooms . Nurses&#8217; stations will be located outside all patient rooms. A private family waiting area also will be added.
&#8226; Fourteen state-of-the-art surgical suites, including a &#8220;hybrid operating room.&#8221; There will also be a 21-bay pre-op area, 21 PACU bays, a new EP lab, OR check-in and a new family waiting space.
&#8226; The expanded area also will include a new chapel, physician offices and clinical space, a renovated GI lab, and an enhanced and expansive lobby and main entrance.

Geisinger-CMC sets $80M upgrade