Medical Center at Bowling Green hosts beam raising for High Street Tower

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – On Wednesday afternoon, The Medical Center at Bowling Green raised the final beam of its High Street Tower project, completing its structural framework.

Med Center Health employees were invited to attend the ceremony and signed the beam before it was raised into its final place.

The event marks a significant milestone in the project’s construction.

David Gray, executive vice president of Med Center Health, says the $120 million project represents the largest single investment in the history of Med Center Health and its commitment to expanding mother baby services in the south-central Kentucky community.

“It’s an exciting time for us as we expand services. The first services to occupy High Street Tower will be our mother, baby services. They will occupy the fifth and fourth floors of the new High Street Tower when we open that next year,” Gray says.

The High Street Tower is a five-story structure and will provide a new location for women and children’s services, including one of the largest obstetrics units in Kentucky. Services will include ante-partum, labor and delivery, cesarean suites, post-partum, an emergency department and the region’s only Level III neonatal intensive care unit.

Gray says Med Center Health is the fourth busiest Obstetrics and Gynecology Program in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and delivers on average 3,000 babies per year.

Med Center Health anticipates the project to be completed in July of 2026, coinciding with its 100th anniversary.