Industry News

University of Wisconsin Health of Madison is planning the 13,500-sf UW Cancer Center-Johnson Creek. UW Health and the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center will collaborate with Fort HealthCare and Watertown Memorial Hospital to create the $6.2 million center. Construction will begin in April 2004 and reach completion in early 2005. The center will provide cancer treatment, education, and prevention; medical oncology; radiation oncology; chemotherapy treatment; intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT); and access to clinical trials.

University of Califormia San Diego Medical Center has expanded its emergency department and triage area in by 5,500 sf. The $2.7-million expansion includes two new treatment rooms, a registration area, a paramedic’s room, and a family waiting room. The project was designed by Moon Mayoras Architects and built by Roel Construction Co.

Yuma Regional Medical Center is engaged in a $58.6 million renovation and expansion of its Yuma, Ariz., facility. The multi-phased project includes a new six-story tower featuring a 42-bed critical care unit, a 36-bed medical/surgical unit, and a dedicated heart center entry. The central plant, parking, and underground utilities will also be renovated and relocated. Scheduled for completion in December 2004, the approximately 250,000-sf project was designed by Stichler Design Group with McCarthy as general contractor.

St. Luke’s Hospital has completed the $3.1-million renovation of its Quakertown, Pa., emergency department. The new 11-room facility features a more private registration area and treatment rooms, a larger waiting room, an isolation room for patients with infectious diseases, special pediatric treatment rooms, and a hazardous materials room with a decontamination shower.

Andrx Corp. has awarded O’Neal Inc. of Greenville, S.C., the contract to renovate the first 70,000 sf of a 480,000-sf Morrisville, N.C., manufacturing facility that Andrx acquired from Bristol-Myers Squibb in 2003. The $23-million first phase will create laboratory, warehouse, packaging, and administrative space. Slated for occupancy in early 2005, the plant will employ 400 workers when it reaches full operational status, nearly doubling Andrx’s manufacturing capacity.