After three years of planning and designing, Lourdes master facility project - now called Mission 2012: Building Tomorrow's Healthcare Today will bring new technology to Lourdes and provide patients with a more streamlined system of obtaining outpatient services.

Lourdes is receiving approximately $6.9 million from FEMA for flood mitigation (the flood wall); $8.7 million from a HEAL NY 2 grant; $6 million from philanthropy through the Lourdes Foundation; and the remaining $48.4 million from Lourdes' operating funds for the project.

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A ground breaking ceremony and press conference ws held on March 11, 2009. The ground breaking launched a $70 million capital construction project that will be phased over the next three years.

Elements of the project include:

• Expansion and modernization of the Emergency Department
• Addition of a new open MRI
• Addition of two new surgical suites
• FEMA approved and funded flood wall
• Construction of a new Ambulatory Care Building that will house Lourdes' Gastroenterology (GI) Suite, a registration area, an outpatient blood draw lab area, a pre-admission testing area and Lourdes Rehabilitation Department
• A new two-story main entrance connecting the new Ambulatory Care Building and the existing hospital
• Expansion, redesign and modernization of the Radiology Department
• A multi-story parking garage will be the final phase beginning in 2012 

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