Roger Sipe, Lexington Medical Center’s Senior Vice President of Operations, gave a construction progress update at the Greater Cayce-West Columbia Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Tuesday.

The hospital is in the middle of a $400 million expansion plan that will add a 10-floor tower, 545,000 square feet, 175 beds, eight operating rooms, and 20 specially designed nursery beds for new moms and babies. Sipe said that skin-to-skin contact with the mother helps with the health and recovery for infants.
A 950-vehicle parking garage is also being built on the LMC grounds at Sunset Boulevard and Interstate 26 in West Columbia.

Sipe said the parking facility is scheduled to be completed by January 2018 and the tower is expected to be finished by the spring of 2019, according to estimates. Click on photo below to enlarge: