Northern Inyo Hospital | Building Project Updates

Building Project Updates

Presently, the hospital is in the midst of a building project to continue the high quality of health care services provided locally, to conform with earthquake safety standards, expand the range of emergency care services, upgrade medical technology and facilities, and improve the outpatient services including radiology and surgery. The 2005 bond issue building project consists of three new buildings: 1) the Support Building; 2) the Imaging Building; and 3) the Main Hospital Building. The support and imaging buildings are both now complete. Completion of the support and imaging buildings provides for relocation of services out of the oldest section of the hospital (pictured at the right) that is scheduled for demolition. Construction of the new main hospital building can then begin.




The NIH Support Building houses: Laboratory Purchasing Laundry Maintenance Biomedical Engineering Satellite Boiler Room Construction on this building began in December 2006 and was expected to be completed in November or December 2007. The Grand Opening ceremony took place on April 18 2008.





	The NIH Imaging Building houses: GE Essential Digital Mammography GE Digital 64 Slice VCT (Volume Computerized Tomography) GE Signa 1.5 Tesla MRI w/Excite HD (High Definition) GE Logic 9 3-D Digital Ultrasound x 2 GE DEXA Bone Density GE Infinia/Hawkeye SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) Nuclear Medicine GE Digital Radiography/Fluoroscopy Room x 3 Future GE Discovery PET (Positron Emission Tomography) Hologic Digital Stereotactic Breast Biopsy Table w/Suros vacuum biopsy GE Digital Portable X-Ray Machine PACS (Picture Archival and Communications System) for managing and storing digital pictures, making them available to your doctors, anywhere in the world, in seconds. Construction on this building began in February 2006 and was expected to be completed in January 2008. The Grand Opening ceremony took place on April 18 2008.





Construction work on the NIH Main Hospital Building was expected to begin January 2009 and be completed in January 2010. With the completion of the support and imaging buildings, demolition of the oldest section of the hospital is now possible. Construction of the new main hospital building can then begin. The NIH Main Hospital Building will house: Inpatient Services Emergency Department Intensive Care Unit Patient Rooms Surgery Information Technology Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) Labor and Delivery