Philadelphia Hospital Boom
There is currently a hospital boom that is being felt in the rural areas of Philadelphia where a total of $518 million were invested in three projects during the last six months with more additional projects to be launched soon. Philadelphia and surrounding counties have been the beneficiary of $4 billion worth of projects including the addition of one million square feet of hospital space in western Pennsylvania by the year 2009.
Out of the 148 Minnesota hospitals built since 2002, 56 are planning to either expand or construct new buildings with an estimated total cost of $1.57 billion. Signs of remarkable hospital construction surge can be observed everywhere with the expansion and replacement of the post World War II U.S. hospitals having the most significance.