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CAMDEN − Virtua health is planning a tremendous expansion of its lady of Lourdes sanatorium advanced on Haddon Avenue.

The fitness system proposes building of a six-story tower addition totaling 254,155 rectangular feet, new elevators and other important indoors renovations to existing medical institution facilities in a two-part growth, in keeping with Virtua's preliminary software filed with the Camden Planning Board.

If authorised the alterations to Virtua Our woman of Lourdes health facility will suggest new operating suites for cardiac and neurosurgical approaches and also for organ transplantation.

Virtua Our girl of Lourdes clinic is the most effective facility in southern New Jersey performing kidney, liver and pancreas transplants.

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The expansion plan additionally calls for Virtua's helipad now at ground stage to be relocated to the rooftop of the present Pavilion constructing alongside Vesper Boulevard. The FAA already has accredited the relocation.

beneath the health facility's limestone statue of Our woman, onlookers cheer as a brand new signal is unveiled at Virtua Our woman of Lourdes hospital in Camden in December 2019 after Virtua health purchased the clinic.

Virtua officers have declined comment on the application for preliminary and closing site plan approval except a planning board listening to scheduled for Sept. 14.

"After we acquire and contain their (planning board) input, we appear ahead to sharing greater about the entertaining renovations planned for the sanatorium," Virtua observed in a released statement.

The filing says the enlargement "contains the continuing demand for extended scientific capabilities coupled with essential advancements to present facilities and capabilities."

youngsters the number of clinic beds now at 410 will now not alternate, there will be seventy eight unique private rooms in the new tower and 18 intensive care beds are additionally part of the renovation.

Atop the eight-story Lourdes building a 15-ton limestone statue of Our lady, the Blessed mother of Christ. It has been atop the hospital for 75 years and there's no plan to get rid of it.

Virtua purchased the Catholic-primarily based Lourdes fitness equipment in 2019 for $60 million, a value that protected one more sanatorium in Willingboro.

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