SALISBURY, Md. -- It's a project that's been 9 years in the making. Officials broke ground Monday morning on what will become 16 newly renovated operating rooms. The rooms will be significantly larger and full of new technology.
"It's really a huge movement to make surgery less invasive and less invasive means smaller incisions, shorter hospital stays and less pain from surgery," Dr. Mark Edney, a surgeon at PRMC tells WMDT.
Right now the hospital's operating rooms are 35 years old, making it difficult to perform modern day surgeries, and doctors tell us they need to be bigger.
"It's very difficult it's like having a family of 8 living in a 1 bedroom house," Edney says.
In 3 years, the rooms will go from 400 square feet to 600, and some will even grow to 800 square feet.
The hospital expects the new and improved, not to mention more modern facilities, will help with recruitment.
"Top notch surgeons want to practice in top notch facilities and this will provide them the exposure to the size and range of technology that they can bring into those rooms it will be very attractive," PRMC president, Dr. Peggy Naleppa tells us.
The project is expected to cost almost 18 million dollars, and should be complete in about 3 years.
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