COLUMBUS – For more than 10 years, OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital has been the busiest maternity hospital in the state and one of the busiest in the country, so it seems only natural that the Northwest Side hospital campus host a planned women’s health center.
The company has announced it is planning to spend more than $600 million on a 590,000-square-foot inpatient and outpatient facility that will provide advanced maternity and NICU care with a fourth trimester clinic, as well as OB/GYN, mid-life, bone health, mammography and other services.
Features of the OhioHealth Women’s Center:
Inpatient and outpatient care (185 inpatient beds)
Labor, delivery and recovery rooms
C-Section
High Risk Obstetrics
GYN/Breast Surgery
NICU
Post-partum care
The center will also include over 150,000 square feet of comprehensive and complementary ambulatory programming that brings together primary care, specialty care and support services to promote care coordination. urogynecology and female urology.
OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital delivered nearly 7,000 babies in 2022.
Groundbreaking is scheduled for late 2023 on the southeast corner of the OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital campus and the center is expected to open in 2026, Stephanie Stanavich, OhioHealth media relations manager, said.