COVINGTON LA — Just as healthcare is increasingly relying on evidence-based medicine, hospitals are increasingly interested in evidence-based design (building based on the best available evidence for promoting safety, health, wellness, healing and inspiration). St. Tammany Parish Hospital will use this significant hospital design improvement as it grows to provide a hospital environment that is family-oriented, improves quality and supports staff.

Successive phases of the strategic plan will evolve on pace with regional growth and will transform our setting into a healing environment that helps to improve patient outcomes. The long-term strategy includes inpatient services on the main campus and outpatient services throughout the service area, taking care to the neighborhoods where people need it. Healing Arts (including nature, art, beauty and restful influences in the designs and décor of our spaces) will continue to be an integral part of St. Tammany’s growth and development.

As part of the strategic growth initiative at St. Tammany Parish Hospital, the Covington office of the St. Tammany Physicians network and the Sleep Disorders Center will expand to better serve our patients.

Together, these two services will be located at 80 Gardenia Drive in Covington at the corner of Gardenia and Azalea Drive along Hwy. 21 in front of Flower Estates. When complete, it will be an 11,674 sq.ft. single story building. The project is estimated to take approximately six months to complete.

With all permitting complete, the site is cleared and the project is in the first phase of work with the forming of the slab now in progress including the underground plumbing and electrical rough-ins. Within the next few weeks, the slab will be poured and the erection of the walls and building framework will begin.

Full-service acute care facility committed to providing world-class healthcare and the latest technology, St. Tammany Parish Hospital delivers today’s life-improving procedures with the utmost care to area residents with emphasis on wellness, preventive care and disease management close to home. STPH is a self-supporting not-for-profit community hospital; it receives no tax funding. www.stph.org

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