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56 Morristown Magazine diagnostic center is a huge plus for Morristown and the surrounding region it serves.” The medical campus is a $38.5 million project that will see the bottom floor of the facility expand the breadth of health services available to local residents including a 12 bed emergency-care wing that offers some relief for an often times crowded main unit at Morristown-Hamblen Healthcare System. New technologies fill the space such as two “nega- tive pressure” rooms that isolate patients and their surrounding air, deemed to pose an infectious illness riskwithout having to set up the plastic sheet and tape structures typically associated with dangerous illnes- ses. Morristown-Hamblen West offers emergency care to walk-in patients while ambulances are routed to the main hospital. The new facility does have an am- bulance bay for future use if needs dictate an evolu- tion of services offered. The top floor of the facility is used for primary care facilities. The space is divided into four “pods” that are shared by four primary care providers, two of which are new to the Covenant Health facilities in Morristown. In total, Covenant Health reports the investment in the community is creating 25 new positions to go