MedStar Georgetown University Hospital received approval for its $567 million plan to build a six-story hospital pavilion and renovate its existing hospital, District regulators said Friday.
A regulatory panel recommended last week that the project receive a certificate of need — the regulatory approval required for medical facilitiles — and on Friday the director of the State Health Planning and Development Agency agreed. The hospital submitted its plan last July.
MedStar officials intend to build a 477,000-square-foot surgical pavilion just east of the main hospital, where a surface lot is currently located. That pavilion would include a larger emergency department, private patient rooms, new operating rooms and a new helipad.
Hospital officials have said they would begin construction as early as December and deliver the project by 2020.