Cherokee county has outgrown the current hospital, so a new replacement hospital is set to open Saturday in Canton.

Billy Hayes, CEO of Northside Hospital Cherokee, says the new hospital is located off interstate 575 at highway 20.

"We've outgrown in every department currently within the hospital; the current hospital is basically at or beyond capacity," says Hayes.

The new $282 million facility will have a total of 150 beds.

The current hospital's emergency department closes its doors at 5 a.m. Saturday, and patients will be sent to the new replacement hospital.

He says while they are still recruiting doctors, nurses and other staff, they are adequately staffed to handle anything that would come their way in the immediate future.

Northside physicians and other health care professionals provide a full range of care everything from cancer institute/radiation oncology, inpatient and outpatient surgical services, robotic surgery, and gynecology to plastic surgery.