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The $42-million Lakewood Ranch Medical Center in Bradenton, Fla., recently admitted its first patients. The 3-story, 120-bed facility houses a women's center with labor/delivery rooms, ER and intensive care units, and a surgery center with five OR suites. Three feet of structural fill over the site's 180,000-sf footprint needed to be placed and graded before construction began. The project architect was HKS of Dallas with McCarthy as general contractor.

St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica will soon begin site work on the $137.6-million Keck Diagnostic and Treatment Center. Constructed by McCarthy, the Keck Center, which will be built using base-isolation technology to mitigate the effects of a seismic event, will be tied into an existing adjacent structure that is also base isolated. The site for the 275,000-sf, 4-story tower (with two basement levels) is surrounded on all four sides by existing hospital facilities.

Presbyterian Hospital has completed a major vertical expansion of its Albuquerque facility. The $45-million project - a joint venture between McCarthy's Southwest and Midwest divisions - involved a three-story expansion on top of the hospital's existing four-story east wing, as well as utility infrastructure improvements and seismic upgrades. The expansion adds 160,000 sf to the acute care hospital to house pediatric intensive care, neonatal intensive care, cardiac, and labor and delivery units.

Prairie View A&M University is expanding its presence at the Texas Medical Center in Houston with a new College of Nursing facility. Increasing teaching space to accommodate its growing program, the building design accommodates 110,000 sf for immediate occupancy with the capacity for future vertical expansion. Designed by Watkins Hamilton Ross, the facility will house classrooms, distance education classrooms, human simulation labs, skills labs, computer facilities, and a large auditorium.

Kaiser Permanente is planning a $68.45-million expansion of its Moanalua Medical Center in Hawaii. A five-story, 176,000-sf tower will be constructed, and 95,000 sf of existing space in the inpatient medical center will be renovated. The expansion will add five urgent care rooms, eight operating rooms, six emergency rooms, and 68 new acute-care beds.