Healthcare

Atlanticare will break ground in September 2005 on a $98 million expansion and renovation of Atlanticare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City, N.J. Including the construction of a 198,000-sf, seven-story tower adjacent to the existing hospital, the project will also feature a new intensive care unit with 26 private rooms, a new radiology department, emergency department, helipad, and two medical/surgical floors housing 30 private patient suites each. Completion is slated for 2008.

Southwest Washington Medical Center began construction in January 2005 on a new 359-space parking structure on its Vancouver campus. In April construction will begin on a 307,000-sf, $146 million patient care building. The eight-story facility will include 15 new surgery suites, 154 private patient rooms, and a dedicated heart and vascular health center. Completion is expected in December 2006.

The Palo Alto Medical Foundation has awarded architectural firm NBBJ the contract to design its new 110-bed medical center in San Carlos, Calif. The $300 million facility is expected to reach completion by 2011

Shriners' Hospital for Children in Mexico City is now 73 pecent complete. Constructed by Beck, the 311,000-sf facility consists of three storeis and a basement housing 80 pediatric and four critical care beds.

St. Joseph's Hospital is planning a $70-million expansion of its existing 400,000-sf, three-building campus in downtown St. Paul. Project plans describe the construction of a five-story, 171,000-sf facility that will house an outpatient clinic, heart center, neurovascular institute, and helicopter landing pad. Two additional floors may be constructed in the future to accommodate growth.

Camino Medical Group is planning to construct a 250,000-sf outpatient medical center on nine acres in Mountain View, Calif. In January 2005, the closed Emporium department store that occupies the site will be razed and construction will begin. Completion is expected in 2007. The three-story center will house medical offices, an outpatient surgery center, labs, diagnostic radiology, and a pharmacy.

Community Hospital North, part of Indiana's Community Health Network, has awarded the design contract for its new 850,000-sf expansion in Indianapolis to the Dallas office of RTKL. Groundbreaking was held recently for the $170-million construction project, which is expected to reach completion in early 2007.

The Wyandot Center for Community Behaivoral Healthcare broke ground on December 3, 2004, on a new 39,000-sf mental health facility in Kansas City, Kan. The $6-million center is sited on 17 acres and will act as the county's designated mental health facility. Completion is expected in early 2006. The Eby Group of Olathe is the project coordinator.

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, a Sutter Health affiliate, is planning to construct a 350-bed hospital in Oakland. With a potential construction cost of over $600 million, the facility would replace inpatient space at Alta Bates Summit Medical Centers in Berkeley and Oakland and would be constructed to meet California's state seismic safety standards that take effect in 2013. Groundbreaking is expected to commence on the facility in approximately three years.

Washington Hospital Healthcare System is planning a $282-million expansion and seismic retrofit of Washington Hospital in Fremont, Calif. Construction on a new power plant at the site will break ground in 2005. The initial development phase describes an expansion of the hospital's emergency department, ICU, cardiac care, and lab and radiology facilities, as well as the addition of beds and operating rooms. The cost of the hospital's comprehensive expansion plan over the next ten years is estimated at $476 million.

Kaiser Permanente is engaged is construction of the new 1,002,528-sf Downey Medical Center and parking structure in Downey, Calif. Constructed by McCarthy, the facility will replace the hospital portion of the existing Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, which will be converted to an outpatient facility. Being built in accordance with state seismic requirements, the 352-bed, full-service hospital will include inpatient and outpatient services and will house 82 departments as well as an 85-room emergency department.

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.

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.