Ochsner Health Systems recently announced plans for a $360 million expansion project at its hospital campus in Jefferson, La. The project will include the expansion of the north, south and west campuses with targeted completion dates in stretching to 2019.
One of the largest parts of the expansion is at the Main South Campus where contractors will add seven additional floors to the existing eight-story OMC West Tower building. Each floor will feature 34 private rooms, increasing total hospital inpatient capacity from 602 beds to 767 beds.