In 2003, Shenandoah Memorial Hospital undertook the creation of a Master Facility Plan to update the hospital, improve efficiency and stay current with fast-advancing healthcare opportunities and community needs. 

While the overall plan will take ten to fifteen years to unfold, the first phase will address the area of most critical need – surgical services.  Since 1997, the hospital’s outpatient surgery caseload has increased by 80 percent.  As a result, improved surgical facilities are the hospital’s highest investment priority. 

Shenandoah Memorial Hospital Foundation has committed to raise $1.5 million to put toward the cost for the renovation and expansion of the Ambulatory Surgical Unit.  Community contributions to this campaign will allow SMH to hold healthcare costs in check and retain a significant degree of fiscal strength.

• Congested parking area allows no convenient pick up or drop off area
• The waiting area does not offer a good environment in which to confer with families and the furnishings are worn and dated
• There is very limited space for visitors to spend time with their loved ones when they need to be there
• Surgical patients are exposed to the public due to the layout of the hallways
• Preoperative and postoperative patients must share the same space
• The Operating Room cannot schedule any more patients due to the lack of preoperative and postoperative care space
• The nursing staff must work within a very limited space