Bigger is better for hospital

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - One hospital say its plans to increase space in rooms is just what the doctor ordered when it comes to treating patients with emergencies.

Workers at Miami Valley are in the process of expanding many of the hospital's rooms in the Emergency area.

The $12 million project will leave the hospital with 81 treatment spaces up from 70.

On top of that, the rooms will nearly double in size.

Many of the hospitals patients these days, about 75 percent, are admitted through the ER, so it's only grown in importance.

The reason for the bigger rooms is that the hospital says the aging population takes up more space because of more equipment used for treatment and more visitors in the room.

"Our goal is to have the visitors with the patient as much as possible because they provide a lot of information to us," says Bonnie Coalt, an Administrator of Hospital Operations.

The expansion is expected to be finished in November of 2013.