Barnes-Jewish Hospital will open its Plaza West Tower to patients next month, the latest milestone in a campus renewal project more than a decade in the making.

“This project [has] allowed us to renew our facilities, to support the referral business and the most complex heart and vascular patients in the region,” said Dr. John Lynch, Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s president, during a media tour of the facility on Thursday. “About 80 to 100 new patients will be able to be served at any one time by adding this facility.”

Lynch said he expects the building will be fully staffed when patients begin arriving in October with some staff relocating and others being recruited now.

“We also have patients that are waiting in the region every day to come to Barnes-Jewish Hospital and to see our Washingto

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