Russo plans to submit an application for a 42-bed expansion to District officials, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday.

The additional inpatient space would include 40 medical surgical beds and two delivery rooms. Russo will also request a new operating room with an MRI, she told the Washington Business Journal. These rooms will take up the top floor of the hospital, which was cleared out when the medical school moved its lab and classroom space to the Science and Engineering Hall.

Russo, who is taking over for Barry Wolfman after his four-year tenure as CEO, told the Washington Business Journal that moving the medical school programs will not affect the hospital’s partnership with the University.

“The university is a strong partner and part of who we are as part of the fabric of this organization. We are the George Washington University Hospital,” Russo said. “They are our medical school as well as our faculty. It’s a very strong relationship and we continue to try to really develop strategy that’s helping us to define medicine and move health care to the next level.”