GW TO OPEN NEW $96 MILLION HOSPITAL AUGUST 14TH
400,000 Square Foot Facility Is One Of The Most Technologically Advanced In The Nation

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., the hospital of choice for our country's leaders and foreign dignitaries, is opening a brand new 371 bed hospital with a price tag of $96 million. The grand opening is scheduled for August 14th and the new facility will then open to patients on August 24th. The new George Washington University Hospital will be one of the most technologically advanced medical facilities in the nation.

Inside the walls of this 400,000 square foot facility exist hundreds of miles of wires that enable the facility to operate via a wireless radio-frequency network. This high tech system provides for faster imaging, near paperless record keeping and easy access by clinicians to patient data. Patient care will improve when physicians can connect to the wireless information network via their palm pilot, providing them with the ability to retrieve or supply up to the minute information on all of their patients anywhere in the hospital.

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