BEND, OR -- St. Charles Medical Center is updating more than one hundred of their patient rooms. The hospital showed off the first 13 remodeled rooms on the third and fourth floors, Monday.  Project Manager Jim Walker says the improvements will make for better care.  "Our existing rooms are really quite small especially when you consider the nursing needs.  So we brought them up to modern code and really refreshed them.  And part of the features are new exterior windows that are larger than the old ones and the westside windows highlight the Cascade Mountains very nice."

The remodel is part of a nearly $28 million project.  The rooms will be larger as will the bathrooms to meet ADA requirements and electrical, plumbing and ventilation systems are also being updated.  A total of 110 rooms be revamped during the project, which will take 2.5 years to complete.