{"id":24894,"date":"2018-04-12T08:50:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=24894"},"modified":"2018-04-12T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:56:00","slug":"upmc-chautauqua-wca-expansion-project-reaches-special-milestone-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/upmc-chautauqua-wca-expansion-project-reaches-special-milestone-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"UPMC Chautauqua WCA Expansion Project Reaches Special Milestone on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/UPMC-at-Chautauqua.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20819\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wca-to-expand-addiction-treatment-programming-to-include-long-term-rehab-assistance\/upmc-at-chautauqua\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/UPMC-at-Chautauqua.jpg?fit=890%2C593&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"890,593\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"UPMC at Chautauqua WCA\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/UPMC-at-Chautauqua.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/UPMC-at-Chautauqua.jpg?fit=890%2C593&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-20819\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/UPMC-at-Chautauqua.jpg?resize=401%2C267&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/UPMC-at-Chautauqua.jpg?w=890&amp;ssl=1 890w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/UPMC-at-Chautauqua.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/UPMC-at-Chautauqua.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>JAMESTOWN &#8211; Local and state officials will join the staff of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcahospital.org\/\"><strong>UPMC Chautauqua WCA<\/strong><\/a> Thursday afternoon in Jamestown for a special ceremony focusing on the hospital&#8217;s current expansion project.<\/p>\n<p>At 12:30 p.m. the hospital will hold a Beam-signing and topping off ceremony to mark the completion of assembling the structural steel for the hospital&#8217;s new Women&#8217;s and Maternity Care Center and inpatient adolescent and adult mental health units.<\/p>\n<p>The $26 million expansion project was announced near the end of 2016 after WCA merged with UPMC &#8211;\u00a0 Pennsylvania\u2019s largest health system. <strong>Clark Patterson Lee<\/strong> handled the project design and <strong>LeChase Construction<\/strong> is the lead contractor.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who will be on hand for the occasion are UPMC Chautauqua WCA president <strong>Betsy Wright<\/strong>, WCA Board Chair <strong>Steve Kilburn<\/strong>, WCA Foundation chair <strong>Peter Stark<\/strong>, and State assemblyman <strong>Andy Goodell<\/strong> &#8211; among others.<\/p>\n<p>The two-story addition is located above the hospital&#8217;s emergency department. Once completed, the hospital will relocate labor and delivery, post-partum, nursery and an operating room to the new third floor space, while the fourth floor space will house inpatient psychiatric care, including a 10-bed adolescent unit and a 20-bed unit for adults.<\/p>\n<p>Funding for the project comes from a $26.4 million grant awarded in March by DOH to support sustainability efforts and infrastructure improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s event is several months in the making and follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/upmc-chautauqua-wca-holds-groundbreaking-ceremony-for-26-million-expansion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the special ground breaking event<\/a> for the project that took place in May 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMESTOWN &#8211; Local and state officials will join the staff of UPMC Chautauqua WCA Thursday afternoon in Jamestown for a special ceremony focusing on the hospital&#8217;s current expansion project. At 12:30 p.m. the hospital will hold a Beam-signing and topping off ceremony to mark the completion of assembling the structural steel for the hospital&#8217;s new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":20819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[126,207,5975,7630,8316,6051,7258],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/UPMC-at-Chautauqua.jpg?fit=890%2C593&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-6tw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21964,"url":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/upmc-chautauqua-wca-holds-groundbreaking-ceremony-for-26-million-expansion\/","url_meta":{"origin":24894,"position":0},"title":"UPMC Chautauqua WCA Holds Groundbreaking Ceremony for $26 Million Expansion","author":"WRFA Radio","date":"May 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"JAMESTOWN - Officials with UPMC Chautauqua WCA held a ground breaking ceremony Friday to begin the process of building a new 18,000-square-foot addition to the hospital on Foote Ave. Once completed, the $26.4 million project will provide a new, state-of-the-art maternity department, along with an upgraded mental health services department\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Local News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Local News","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/category\/news\/local-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4516.jpg?fit=800%2C580&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4516.jpg?fit=800%2C580&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4516.jpg?fit=800%2C580&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4516.jpg?fit=800%2C580&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20833,"url":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/city-planning-commission-signs-off-on-wca-expansion\/","url_meta":{"origin":24894,"position":1},"title":"City Planning Commission Signs Off on WCA Expansion","author":"WRFA Radio","date":"January 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"JAMESTOWN - The Jamestown City Planning Commission has given its approval to an expansion project at UPMC Chautauqua WCA. 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