Friday the ribbon was cut on a new $19.5 million surgical wing at United Memorial Medical Center.
More than 125 people attended the ceremony and toured the new facility, with more people taking advantage of the open house to see the state-of-art surgical wing.
The new facility includes five high-tech surgical suites and 19 recovery beds.
"Batavia in its history has had many pivotal moments, and this is certainly one of them," UMMC Board Chairman Tom Houseknecht said. "The entire community can be proud of this new surgery center."
UMMC Chief of Surgery, Dr. Matthew Landfried, said the entire staff is eager to begin working in the new 44,000-square-foot addition.
The first surgery is scheduled for Jan. 4.
Above, Mark Schoell, UMMC CEO, Tom Houseknecht, Dr. Matt Landfried and Bill Fritz, chair of the 2010 capital campaign, cut the red ribbon.
More pictures after the jump (to purchase pictures, click here):
Regular readers of The Batavian may recognize this picture -- first published on April 22. It's one of 15 photos of Genesee County by Howard Owens selected for display in the new wing. The other 14 photos will be hung some time in the coming week.
