ATLANTA — Grady Hospital celebrated a milestone on Monday.

After five years of construction, the new Correll Pavilion, an outpatient surgery and oncology center, is open and ready for patients.

Grady’s top executives, staff, and local leaders joined for a special ribbon cutting at the $237 million tower.

“It feels like the facility matches the quality of what’s going on in these walls,” Elizabeth Correll-Richards, daughter of former Grady Chairman Pete Correll said.

It is Grady’s largest single investment in 30 years.

The facility is going to add six new operating rooms, oncology space, and rooms for outpatient surgeries.

It also means more clinic space at the main campus, which is desperately needed as traffic has increased upwards of 50% since the closure of the Atlanta Medical Center.

“We’re already in the process of finishing out an older section of the hospital, gutting it, with all new infrastructure,” Grady Health System President John Haupert said. “All new private patient rooms.”

The building is named after the late philanthropist and businessman Pete Correll, former chairman at Grady Memorial Hospital.

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