Print This Page Shepherd Center Begins Demolition to Create Outdoor Space for Patients, Families, Staff May 8 , 2008 Media Contact: Alison Damerow (404-350-7645) When completed, the 75,000-square-foot Family Residence Center will include 84 wheelchair accessible suites, each containing a bedroom, living space, kitchenette and bathroom. In addition, it will include a large family activities room, a community lounge with a place for children to play, and classroom space to hold caregiver training classes for family members. The former hotel was purchased by the hospital in September 2005. The plan for the space is to incorporate it into the current Shepherd campus as an outdoor space and reserve the space for any future expansion needs the hospital may have. Shepherd Center also recently wrapped up construction on the Jane Woodruff Pavilion, which nearly doubled the size of the hospital and created space for 20 new patient beds, a 10-bed ICU, additional therapy gyms and treatment rooms, a new cafeteria and dining facility, additional office space, and more clinical facilities to expand and centralize Shepherd Center’s outpatient services area in order to make them more accessible to patients and families. The Jane Woodruff Pavilion officially opened in March and the Family Residence Center is slated to open in early summer.
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