Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony May 11, 2026, to celebrate the completion and naming of a $58 million expansion and renovation project that has increased the hospital’s critical care capacity. Named the Shelby and Wanda Amos Intensive Care Unit, the 99,038-square-foot project includes 43 new ICU beds, plus 68 renovated rooms, across three nursing units.
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Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday to celebrate the completion and naming of a $58 million expansion and renovation project that has increased the hospital’s critical care capacity.
Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony May 11, 2026, to celebrate the completion and naming of a $58 million expansion and renovation project that has increased the hospital’s critical care capacity. Named the Shelby and Wanda Amos Intensive Care Unit, the 99,038-square-foot project includes 43 new ICU beds, plus 68 renovated rooms, across three nursing units. Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com
Piedmont Columbus Regional CEO Scott Hill told the gathering he is excited for the doctors, nurses, technicians, respiratory therapists and many other staff who will care for patients in the expanded and renovated ICU..
“Everybody has done just an amazing job, and this new critical care unit is for them,” Hill said, “They endured a number of years in a unit that did fantastic clinical work but really wasn’t supported by the physical environment that they worked in. And so now, with today’s ribbon cutting, they’re going to have truly a state-of-the-art clinical care environment.”
Piedmont Columbus Regional CEO Scott Hill speaks at the ribbon-cutting ceremony May 11, 2026, to celebrate the completion and naming of a $58 million expansion and renovation project that has increased the Piedmont Columbus Regional midtown hospital’s critical care capacity. Named the Shelby and Wanda Amos Intensive Care Unit, the 99,038-square-foot project includes 43 new ICU beds, plus 68 renovated rooms, across three nursing units. Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com
Hill said the new ICU rooms are about two-and-a-half times larger than the rooms they replaced.
“We have tracks in all of our rooms that will enable us to get patients up who are on ventilators so that we can get them out of bed and get them moving,” Hill said. “It’s clinically proven that, if you can ambulate someone who’s ventilated, they will come off the ventilator sooner.”
Dr. Gurkeerat Singh, a critical care specialist at Piedmont, said they treat patients who are critically ill on a daily basis.
“With critical illness comes need for ventilators, a need for dialysis and multiple machines in the room,” Singh said. “So bigger space, better technology in terms of monitoring overall, means better care for the patient.”
Dr. Gurkeerat Singh, a critical care specialist at Piedmont Columbus Regional’s midtown hospital, answers questions May 11, 2026, about the completion and naming of a $58 million expansion and renovation project that has increased the hospital’s critical care capacity. Named the Shelby and Wanda Amos Intensive Care Unit, the 99,038-square-foot project includes 43 new ICU beds, plus 68 renovated rooms, across three nursing units. Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com
With the new ICU and equipment, Singh said, they can provide better care for critically ill patients and potentially offer additional, advanced care, so patients can remain in Columbus for treatment and not have to be transferred to Atlanta or other bigger cities.
Local philanthropist Wanda Amos made a generous contribution to the Piedmont Columbus Regional Foundation in memory of her late husband, Shelby, the son of Aflac principal founder John Amos, according to the Piedmont news release.
Columbus philanthropist Wanda Amos speaks at the ribbon-cutting ceremony May 11, 2026, to celebrate the completion and naming of a $58 million expansion and renovation project that has increased the Piedmont Columbus Regional midtown hospital’s critical care capacity. Named the Shelby and Wanda Amos Intensive Care Unit, the 99,038-square-foot project includes 43 new ICU beds, plus 68 renovated rooms, across three nursing units. Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com
Wanda said Shelby spent 32 days in the old Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown ICU in 2020, and the staff did a great job. She told the crowd at the ribbon-cutting ceremony she hopes this project will help save a lot of lives.
“We wanted to continue our family’s history of giving in Columbus,” she said. “It just means a lot to me to be able to do this in his honor, and I know he’s with us.”
Piedmont Columbus Regional CEO Scott Hill speaks at the ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday to celebrate the completion and naming of a $58 million expansion and renovation project that has increased the hospital’s critical care capacity. Named the Shelby and Wanda Amos Intensive Care Unit, the 99,038 square foot project includes 43 new ICU beds, plus 68 renovated rooms, across three nursing units. 05/11/2026 Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com
Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony May 11, 2026, to celebrate the completion and naming of a $58 million expansion and renovation project that has increased the hospital’s critical care capacity. Named the Shelby and Wanda Amos Intensive Care Unit, the 99,038-square-foot project includes 43 new ICU beds, plus 68 renovated rooms, across three nursing units. Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com
Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony May 11, 2026, to celebrate the completion and naming of a $58 million expansion and renovation project that has increased the hospital’s critical care capacity. Named the Shelby and Wanda Amos Intensive Care Unit, the 99,038-square-foot project includes 43 new ICU beds, plus 68 renovated rooms, across three nursing units. Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com
Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony May 11, 2026, to celebrate the completion and naming of a $58 million expansion and renovation project that has increased the hospital’s critical care capacity. Named the Shelby and Wanda Amos Intensive Care Unit, the 99,038-square-foot project includes 43 new ICU beds, plus 68 renovated rooms, across three nursing units. Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com
Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony May 11, 2026, to celebrate the completion and naming of a $58 million expansion and renovation project that has increased the hospital’s critical care capacity. Named the Shelby and Wanda Amos Intensive Care Unit, the 99,038-square-foot project includes 43 new ICU beds, plus 68 renovated rooms, across three nursing units. Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com
Columbus philanthropist Wanda Amos speaks at the ribbon-cutting ceremony May 11, 2026, to celebrate the completion and naming of a $58 million expansion and renovation project that has increased the Piedmont Columbus Regional midtown hospital’s critical care capacity. Named the Shelby and Wanda Amos Intensive Care Unit, the 99,038-square-foot project includes 43 new ICU beds, plus 68 renovated rooms, across three nursing units. Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com
Michigan native Mike Haskey graduated in 1985 from Central Michigan University with a B.A.A. in journalism. Though trained as a photojournalist, Mike has embraced the industry’s always evolving multimedia demands by learning various video skills and more, including becoming the Ledger-Enquirer’s drone pilot. He’s served and lived in Columbus, GA, for more than 30 years.
