Geisinger Wyoming Valley Acute Care Tower — Wilkes-Barre

Turner Construction has topped out the new acute care tower at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, an 11-story, 600,000-square-foot addition that anchors a $900 million expansion of the campus.

Project Scope
The tower takes the hospital from 356 to 500 beds and moves it to all private patient rooms, a shift that hospitals increasingly treat as a clinical requirement rather than an amenity. Operating rooms grow from 12 to 18, six of them hybrid-capable for image-guided procedures. The emergency department picks up 22 additional treatment areas and three new trauma bays, and the tower adds 24 intensive-care beds plus dedicated behavioral-health space. FCA designed the building, O’Donnell & Naccarato handled the structure, and Turner began vertical work after breaking ground in the summer of 2024. Opening is set for the first quarter of 2028, with campus renovations running through 2030.

Why It Matters
Northeastern Pennsylvania has an aging population and a hospital that was running out of room to treat it. Private rooms cut infection risk and let a facility flex between service lines without shuffling patients. The bigger emergency department and added ICU beds address the pinch points that show up first when volumes spike. For a regional health system, a build this size is a bet that in-patient demand keeps climbing, and that the right place to meet it is a modern tower rather than another round of renovations to 1970s floor plates.

Project Team & Details