Big changes are coming to Akron City Hospital and local facilities. Summa Health is planning to spend up to $350 million over the next few years.

President and CEO Tom Malone unveiled the plans Tuesday morning which includes a six-floor, 300-thousand square foot tower at Akron City Hospital that will house patients and include improved facilities.

"Really, what we're trying to do is come up with a team-based model of care that is multi-disciplinary with the patient at the center of everything we do," said Malone.

Among the other projects in the first phase is the addition of a $50,000 square-foot medical office building on Market Street.

"The whole point is if you come in, nowadays with more than one problem, rather than you the patient having to go to multiple locations, we will have the physicians come to you," said Malone.

The new inpatient facility and office building are part of the first phase of the project which is expected to take place over the next five years.

Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan talked about the significance of master plan investment worth more than $350 million.

"Sometimes we toss around numbers, sometimes big numbers like they're pennies, but let's not get lost in the fact that it's a quarter of a billion dollars being invested in our community," said Horrigan.

Hospital officials said 80 percent of the hospital rooms will be private rooms by the end of the improvement project. 

The improvement plans also includes "modernizing various portions of Summa Barberton Hospital."

To learn more about the improvement plans, click here.