Baptist Health Floyd celebrated the opening of seven new operating rooms at Tuesday’s ribbon-cutting. Staff photo by Brooke McAfee
NEW ALBANY — Baptist Health Floyd has increased its capacity for surgery with new operating rooms.
The New Albany hospital celebrated a ribbon-cutting and dedication Tuesday for the opening of seven new operating rooms.
It now has a total of 10 operating rooms. This is in addition to a hybrid operating room that opened in late 2022 for cardiovascular cases that also allows for heart catheter procedures.
The operating rooms are part of the hospital’s $65-mill ion construction project, which began in the spring of 2022.
Baptist Health Floyd President Mike Schroyer said the hospital needed the expansion “to continue to move forward in the future with our robotics program and the advanced surgeries that we are doing.”
“Over the last couple of years, we have gone from nothing to a robust robotic program with a total of eight different robots here at Baptist Health Floyd,” he said. “We need rooms like this to be able to continue with that program and expand as we go forward.”
In fiscal year 2024, the hospit a l’s surgeons performed 1,107 general surgeries with da Vinci robots, as well as 129 Globus robotassisted spine cases and 177 robotic-assisted total joint replacements.
The hospital performs about 12,000 surgeries a year.
Shannon Arrendale, the hospital’s director of surgical services, said the new rooms make a “big difference” for the hospital.
“Prior to this renovation, our rooms were varying sizes,” she said. “We were like that house that just keeps getting added on and added onto. We had to pick and choose what cases we did in what room based on the size.”
“Now, we can do any case in any room regardless of equipment, which makes us a lot more flexible on the timing of addressing patient needs.”
She praised the staff that kept the facility functioning during construction.
“I’m so thrilled that they f inally have a space that ref lects the care they give,” she said.
Baptist Health Chief Operating Off icer Patrick Falvey said the hospital system’s investment at the New Albany hospital will help “deliver more care to patients throughout the Southern Indiana area.”
Schroyer said he is focused on becoming a regional referral center for Southern Indiana “to keep people closer to home,” and the new operating rooms will help keep people in the area.
“Here at Baptist Health, we have recruited a lot of specialty physicians and surgeons, and we can do almost everything here now with the exception of transplants,” Schroyer said.
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