Frick Hospital in Mount Pleasant, Pa., will become a medical mall, offering specialty medical offices, diagnostic and testing services, a same-day surgery center, outpatient physical therapy, an expanded emergency department and some inpatient rooms, according to the Trib Live website.

The number of inpatient beds at the hospital has been gradually reduced in recent years from as many as 100 to 33. That number will remain unchanged.

It will take five years to convert Frick into a new facility. As part of the five-year project, Excela Health, which owns Frick, will:

• Expand and move the Arnold Palmer Cancer Pavilion's oncology practice to the Frick facility

• Spend $375,000 to create advanced wound care and sleep centers

• Spend $2 million to enhance its emergency department

• Focus all inpatient care on the third floor, which has undergone a $2.6 million renovation

• Convert a portion of the second floor to a high-tech educational facility for staff at a cost of $325,000

• Build a new entrance with an expanded lobby rotunda, modern cafe and enhanced primary care physician office suites during Phase II, set to begin within a year

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