The Medical Center has recently invested more than $10 million to improve imaging capabilities, including digital mammography at Park Avenue Imaging and an all-digital upgrade in the cardiac catheterization lab. In 2008, the Medical Center invested $6 million in radiation therapy technology for patients with cancer and added three patient rooms to accommodate increased patient volume in the emergency department. In 2008, the Medical Center opened the Mount Nittany Center for Wound Care and acquired Penns Valley Area Family Medicine.

In August, 2010 Mount Nittany opened the state-of-the-art East Wing, a 52,000-square-foot addition that adds 68 rooms to the facility.

Future improvements include the east wing expansion, the addition of an operating room at the Medical Center, expansion of the radiology special procedures room, the upgrade to a 64-slice CT scanner and relocation of the inpatient dialysis unit.

Master Campus Plan

In October 2007, Mount Nittany Medical Center announced the completion of its Master Campus Plan in cooperation with The Pennsylvania State University. A land capacity study was undertaken to ensure that the Medical Center's existing 29-acre site could accommodate reasonable and flexible expansion over the next 50 years.

The plan outlines the total building capacity for the 183-acre tract of land comprised of the Medical Center's existing site and an adjacent 154 acres owned by Penn State that has been dedicated to human medicine. Capacity totals for the 183-acre tract would accommodate more than 700,000 square feet of building space, including as many as four additional buildings, a parking garage and significant expansions of the main hospital building.

The plan, which also preserves 122 acres of land for natural agrarian landscape, was developed under the Master Affiliation Agreement signed in April 2006 by The Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Hershey and Mount Nittany Medical Center.