CONWAY – Baptist Health held a topping-out ceremony in July on the 37-acre site in Conway to mark the completion of the main steel structure for Baptist Health Medical Center-Conway.  Baptist Health president and CEO Troy Wells, civic leaders, community members, local physicians, and Baptist Health employees celebrated this milestone for the 111-bed hospital located on the west side of Interstate 40 in Conway.

Since construction began, the hospital has already increased in size to 264,000-square-foot and is now 111-beds after the expansion of the Women’s Center added labor and delivery. The medical center is still on track to open in the spring of 2016 with eight operating rooms and a Level III trauma-center emergency room. 

Baptist Health collaborated with some 30 Conway-based physicians to design and develop the new medical center.

Employees throughout the Baptist Health system as well as the community had an opportunity to personally sign their names on the beam that was used in the topping-out ceremony.  Jamie Carter was the last person to sign the beam before it was put into place with large cranes.

The construction project has generated more than 250 jobs and currently Baptist is working to hire the 425 healthcare professionals and staff that will work in the Conway medical center. 

The estimated cost of the entire project is now at $170 million. GSR Andrade is providing architectural design services and CDI is the General Contractor.