Hospitals

Miami Valley South to expand

Miami Valley Hospital South in Centerville launched construction on a previously announced $60 million expansion that will include a new spine-and-joint center with expanded sports medicine, sports performance and pain center services, according to the hospital’s parent company, Dayton-based Premier Health.

Construction is expected to be completed in stages through the third quarter of 2018, adding 170,000 square feet of new space to the hospital at 2400 Miami Valley Drive.

Expanded services will include emergency medicine, cardiology and primary care. The expanded hospital will also have a cardiac catheterization lab for the first time, as well as enough medical office space for dozens of additional physicians.

Six operating rooms will be added, bringing the site’s total to 16. The expansion will also include 20 additional inpatient beds. New emergency medical center

Kettering Health plans to build a $30 million medical facility on 15 acres land it purchased in Middletown on Ohio 122 just southeast of Interstate 75, the company announced two weeks ago.

The 67,000-square-foot medical center — Kettering Middletown — will offer a full-service emergency department, outpatient lab and imaging services and medical office building for physician practices. It is expected to create 110 new jobs, including registered nurses, respiratory therapists, imaging and lab technicians and support staff.

The land is less than one mile from Premier Health’s Atrium Medical Center and about six miles from an emergency facility that Kettering Health opened in 2015 in Franklin.

Kettering Health Network is one of the region’s largest employers with more than 12,000 people and total 2016 net revenues of approximately $1.5 billion. The system operates eight hospitals, including Fort Hamilton Hospital in Hamilton, 10 emergency departments and 120 outpatient facilities serving southwest Ohio.