Northside Hospital-Forsyth Is Getting Bigger

CUMMING, GA — Northside Hospital-Forsyth is getting bigger.

The campus in Cumming recently finished adding three new floors, including two patient floors, to accommodate more surgical and oncology patients.

The project brings the hospital's in-patient bed count to 247 — up from 231 — and total number of beds, including observation, to 325.

At eight stories, the hospital now stands as the tallest building in Forsyth County.

"Our Forsyth campus has continued to grow ever since Northside bought this hospital in 2002," hospital administrator Lynn Jackson said in a news release. "We’re proud to be able to accommodate the future needs of this growing community and to provide our patients with the latest in health care innovations."

The 77,975-square-foot, $30 million expansion added a seventh floor to care for patients undergoing cancer treatment and an eighth floor that serves post-surgical needs.

The sixth floor serves as the hospital’s heating and air-conditioning hub and is not accessible to patients.

Jackson said the hospital's staffers were part of the decision-making process during the expansion, providing feedback on what would make a patient's time in the unit less stressful.

Northside-Forsyth's growth isn't done, either.

Early this month, the hospital filed a Certificate of Need with the Georgia Department of Community Health's planning office to convert 37 existing observation beds into medical and surgical beds.

The conversion would bring the hospital's number of in-patient beds to 284. The proposal also would expand Northside-Forsyth's cafeteria and dining room.

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