Dr. Robert Brigham started medical school after spending four years in the Infantry with a tour in Vietnam. He completed his training at Walter Reed and retired after twenty-years of service. Dr. Brigham was honored by the new $354,000,000 Healthplex building being named after him in Reading, PA. The Reading Health System staff worked with architects and engineers at the Philadelphia firm Ballinger to design the state-of-the-art facility, which combined the hospital's many surgical services into one of the most sophisticated in-patient and outpatient surgical centers in the region. It contains 24 surgical suites, including six hybrid operating rooms and eight rooms for minor procedures. Click here for the video: https://youtu.be/h0DOoYzBRn. Topped with the third-largest rooftop garden in the country, officials said the building expanded the existing emergency department and trauma center - the busiest in the state - by 17,500 square feet, adding two bays for a total of five. The project also added 150 private patient rooms. This expansion positions Reading Health System to meet the needs of a growing number of patients and advancing technology into 2035. Officials told the audience that Reading Health System was recognized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services with a rating of 4 stars, the highest rating of any system in the region. Read More
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