1. St. John’s Medical Center has been awarded $11.75 million in SPET funds to cover 45 percent of a $26 million project to meet increasing patient demand for Cancer, Surgery, and Obstetrics services.

2. The proposed project will double the size of St. John’s Cancer/Oncology facilities to better accommodate patients, hospital staff and equipment and to allow superior family support and privacy.

3. St. John’s will double its number of Operating Rooms and increase support areas to accommodate new and expanding technologies and equipment.

4. St. John’s project will double its Labor/Delivery/Recovery rooms and Post-Partum patient rooms and add two Ante-Partum patient rooms and a four-bassinet nursery.

5. St. John’s plan allows the hospital to continue to meet the needs of the Jackson Hole community.