St. Bernards Begins $130M Expansion, Renovation Project

St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro on Thursday announced a $130 million, four-phase construction plan that will add a new five-story surgical and intensive care centers tower; expand its cancer center; renovate existing structures; and give the center a new "front door" on Jackson Avenue. Work on the first phase of the project, expected to take 11 months and cost about $9 million, will focus on changes and additions to the Ben E. Owens Cancer Treatment Center. St. Bernards aims to complete that work by October. Other phases will begin in the spring in run through 2019. The project was designed by architectural firm HKS Inc. of Dallas. Nabholz Construction of Conway, which has offices in Jonesboro, will be the project's contractor. The hospital announced the expansion during a lunch Thursday on its campus. Work has already started on improvements to the cancer center, which will bring all St. Bernards' cancer services under one roof. The medical center said that its radiation oncologists — Drs. John Lynch and John Allgood — and medical oncology/hematology specialists — Drs. Mazen Khalil, Marc Montè and Aamer Farooq — will have offices and clinic space in the same building. Improvements to the cancer center include a new medical oncology/hematology clinic, a 27-chair outpatient infusion area, a laboratory for blood testing and a chemotherapy pharmacy that will prepare all physician-ordered antineoplastic drugs on site. Im...
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