CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The MetroHealth System will convert medical offices in Cleveland Heights and in Parma to community hospitals.

The facilities - at 10 Severance Circle in Cleveland Heights and 12301 Snow Road in Parma - will be designed for patients requiring shorter hospital stays.

Both sites already have emergency departments and lab, pharmacy and radiology services. MetroHealth plans to add 12 single-occupancy patient rooms at the Cleveland Heights location and 16 similar rooms at Parma.

Construction is expected to be finished by the end of this year, and the facilities will open to patients by January 2018, according to a press release.

"Patients and their families want to be as close to home as possible when it comes to receiving medical care, especially when it comes to hospitalization. The support the patients receive from their friends and family in a familiar setting, helps their recuperation," Dr. Akram Boutros, president and CEO of MetroHealth, said in a statement.

MetroHealth said the addition of the two new hospitals puts 80 percent of Cuyahoga County residents within a 15-minute drive to a hospital within the system.

The rooms will mirror those in the Critical Care Pavilion, which feature floors to minimize noise and use special lighting to assist with recovery, according to the release.

The Cleveland Heights and Parma locations formerly were HealthSpan urgent care sites and medical offices, of which MetroHealth took over control in 2015. The emergency departments at both sites opened in February 2016 and the medical offices opened in April 2016.