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See the floor plans and an artist rendering of Georgetown Hospital PAGE 8&9 HOSPITAL EXPANSION A CT Scanner for Georgetown Hospital will help eliminate patient transfers PAGE 5 CT SCANNER www.georgetownhospitalfoundation.ca Thursday May 24, 2012 16 Pages Groundbreaking set for May 29 Hospital to get a brand new look By LISA TALLYN Staff Writer The largest expansion in Georgetown Hospital's 51-year history is set to begin, resulting in more than tripling the size of the emergency department and a Diagnostic Imaging department all housed in one area that will include a new CT scanner. The newly-built ER department is slated to open next March and after the move into the new 14,000 sq. ft. addition is complete, renovation will get underway in the ER's former 4,270 sq. ft. location to make way for the Diagnostic Imaging department, with all the work expected to be completed by midsummer. The groundbreaking for the $14.2 million hospital Redevelopment Project is set for May 29 with work to begin in early June. The new ER space will be located adjacent to the current ER (on the east end of the building), and the new Diagnostic Imaging area in the current ER will bring together X-ray, ultrasound, bone densitometry, mammography and the CT Scanner into one designated space instead of various locations throughout the hospital. Back in 2009 when the hospital received the liRobert Bourns, Dr. Wei Chu (Co-chief of family medicine) cence to have a CT scanner, hospital staff looked and Dr. Justin Busse (Chief of the ER) are eager to see the See FUNDRAISING, pg. 3 project get underway. Photo by Ted Brown A trio of doctors at Georgetown Hospital turned in their stethoscopes for shovels to help promote the May 29 grounbreaking of the hospital expansion project. From left, Dr.