Government officials and hospital administrators marked the completion Wednesday of the $175 million, seven-story Patient Tower at Franklin Square Hospital Center in Rosedale. The 356,000 square-foot facility will begin accepting patients, who will be housed in private rooms, next month. The building includes an expanded emergency department, intensive care unit, and the Todd Heap Family Pediatric Center with its pediatric emergency and inpatient units.
The Patient Tower will serve the growing needs of eastern Baltimore County as well as the hospital's service areas in Baltimore City and Harford County. In 2009, Franklin Square's Emergency Department served more than 104,700 patients and the hospital is one of the busiest in Maryland. The hospital, part of MedStar Health, is the largest community hospital in Maryland and one of Baltimore County's largest employers with approximately 3,300 health care professionals, including more than 600 physicians