Business View Magazine | August 2019

44 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE AUGUST 2019 Jefferson Health’s Washington Town- ship Campus Continues to Grow to Meet the Community’s Needs It’s a time of intense growth and progress at Jefferson Health’s Washington Township campus, with new construction underway and enhanced patient-focused services available. The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center - Washington Township has added a new $7.2 million, 10,000 square-foot Medical Oncology Infusion Suite to its range of comprehensive patient-focused services. The suite will feature 16 infusion bays, as well as an onsite pharmacy and laboratory. At nearby Jefferson Washington Township Hospital, the second phase of a $222-million construction project is underway. Following the Spring 2019 opening of the new 8-level, free parking facility, work is underway on a new seven- floor hospital Patient Tower with 90 private rooms, slated for completion in Summer 2021. There will be a new hospital main entrance featuring a spacious, light- filled two-story lobby with patient and visitor amenities that include a café and cafeteria with outdoor dining. Jefferson has long been a strong supporter of Washington Township, most recently contributing $20,000 in support of the new Bike Share program. The program, which ties in with Mayor Joann Gattinelli’s overall Wellness Campaign, enables community members to reserve a free bike to enjoy at Washington Lake Park. ...... For more information, please visit our website www.KennedyIsJefferson.org information with everyone I work with and I greatly appreciate all of our committee people, our volunteers, and our residents. We take every phone call coming into our office, sincerely. It’s their town as well and it’s a group effort. At the end of the day, we’re able to come together and do what’s best for everyone in the community.” The biggest challenges are providing services – making sure properties are maintained, that trash is picked up, that snow is plowed - the normal services residents expect from a municipality. Over and above that, road maintenance is always a big project that has to be revisited every year, often depending on the impact of weather. Gattinelli notes, “We want to provide residents everything they need to stay in the town. And they do support the local businesses. When I came into office we showed our support to small businesses with a ‘Shop Washington Township’ program. Basically, a partnership between the businesses and the residents. Homeowners have the opportunity to sign onto the program and frequent participating businesses, and those residents earn a credit to their third-quarter taxes.” Mozzachio acknowledges, “We’ve worked hard to unpack the things that are most important to entrepreneurs. Things like our county workforce development, which has a very active board that goes out and visits entrepreneurs and existing businesses and has them do a checklist of things they might need and how they can supplement that. The county also has a pretty robust microloan program.” KennedyisJefferson.org