In Livingston: St. Barnabas Medical Center Breaks Ground on $250 Million Expansion

On Wednesday afternoon, St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston broke ground on a $250 million expansion to its West Wing.

Construction on the project is expected to complete in 2017, and will increase the size of the hospital by 225,000 square feet, reported TAPintoLivingston.

The addition will include a five-story pavilion, 114 private rooms, services ranging from noninvasive cardiology to an endoscopy lab, a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and a parking garage.

The expansion was partly funded by one of the largest donations to a hospital in New Jersey history, a $25 million grant from the Leon and Toby Cooperman Family Foundation.

According to a release, the new structure – to be named the “Cooperman Family Pavilion” - will feature a floor dedicated to a new Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and new units on three floors offering all private rooms. The ground floor will offer cardiac, vascular, pulmonary, and electroencephalography diagnostic services in a location convenient for outpatients. Other key elements of the overall West Wing Initiative will include a new expanded Surgery Center, a parking garage that connects to the new building, and two new parking areas on campus that will be designed to provide better access for patients and visitors.

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