UHS Wilson Medical Center tower project progresses

JOHNSON CITY, N.Y. — Construction on the UHS Wilson Medical Center’s six-story expansion project is more than 25 percent complete with work moving forward on the 183,375-square-foot main tower that will serve as the new front entry for UHS’ health and medical services.

With the majority of the structural steel in place as of February, crews are working on framing and prepping interior walls in the basement and first-floor emergency department and running mechanical, electrical, and plumbing lines through the walls, according to a UHS news release.

When complete, the tower will hold four inpatient medical/surgical units, each with 30 private patient rooms. It will also hold the new emergency department, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite, and a rooftop helipad.

Workers have completed several phases of the Wilson project including an upgrade to the facility’s generators, waste farm, and oxygen bulk farm, and the development of two trauma rooms and relocating the post-anesthesia care unit. That space will serve as the new corridor linking the existing hospital with the new tower, UHS says.

The rest of the expected project timeline calls for the completion of upgrades to radiography/fluoroscopy rooms and imaging support space in August, 28 emergency department rooms in April 2024, the third-floor medical/surgical unit with 30 private patient rooms and the MRI suite in the spring of 2024, medical/surgical units on the 4th through 6th floors with 90 patient rooms in the fall of 2024, and 19 additional emergency department rooms in the summer of 2025.

The expected completion date for the project is the summer of 2025, UHS says.