The Boone Hospital Center celebrated the “topping off” of its new patient tower on Thursday morning, though bad weather forced the installation of the tower’s top beam a day early.
The 22-foot, 600-pound beam has been displayed in the hospital lobby for the six weeks, allowing people to sign it and to express their feelings about the hospital. The beam was scheduled to be ceremonially installed Thursday, but because of weather the beam was installed Wednesday.
The tower is scheduled to be completed in June 2011.