Atrium Health starts building $893M, 448-bed tower on main campus in midtown

CHARLOTTE — Atrium Health’s next major construction project is underway.

The Charlotte-based health-care giant broke ground Wednesday on a 12-story, 1.1-million-square-foot bed tower that is part of Atrium’s $1.4 billion capital expenditure investment into its main campus facilities in midtown.

The new tower will have 448 beds and include state-of-the-art operating rooms, surgery and procedure suites, cardiac cath labs, interventional radiology suites, diagnostics and imaging, inpatient beds, a helipad and an expanded emergency room, as well as public amenities and dining.

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Chan Roush, Atrium’s facility executive for Carolinas Medical Center, said the groundbreaking is the culmination of five years of planning.

Atrium Health starts building $893M, 448-bed tower on main campus in midtown

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