Healthcare

Regional Medical Center of San Jose has selected Skanska USA Building as construction manager for a $74,000 hospital addition/renovation project in San Jose, Calif. Designed by Hayes & Oakley Architects, the project will include a 138,000-sf patient bed tower and 24,000 sf of renovations. The construction phase is expected to begin in August with a May 2008 completion. Regional Medical Center of San Jose is owned by HCA. The project will be managed by Skanska's Nashville, Tenn. office.

Baylor Health Care System will break ground on June 7, 2005 on the Texas Heart Hospital on Baylor's Plano campus. The $106-million, 180,000-sf facility will accommodate inpatient and outpatient care, heart surgery, cardiac catheterizations, vascular surgery, non-invasive cardiovascular testing, and 24-hour emergency care. The four-story, 68-bed facility, a partnership between Baylor and 86 cardiovascular physicians and surgeons, is expected to open in January 2007.

OhioHealth is constructing a 325,000-sf hospital on an 89-acre site in Dublin, Ohio. The $130-million full-service facility is the first hospital in Dublin and is slated for occupancy in October 2007. The 94-bed hospital will accommodate an emergency department, intensive care rooms, labor and delivery, and inpatient/outpatient surgery services.

Northside Hospital is constructing a three-story, $39-million surgical center at its existing hospital in Cumming, Georgia. The project consists of 109,000 sf of new construction and 29,000 sf of renovations and will house 8 operating rooms, 17 post-anesthesia care units, and expanded radiology services. Occupancy is expected in summer of 2006.

Miami Valley Hospital will begin construction in 2006 on a $73-million health care facility in Centerville, Ohio. The 200,000-sf 24-hour emergency care center will house cardiac diagnostic services, medical imaging services, laboratory services, cancer treatment center, breast center, and a physician office complex. Completion is slated for 2007.

Nashville-based Ameris Health System has broken ground on the first phase of the 112,000-sf Summit Hospital in Phenix City, Ala. Brasfield & Gorrie of Birmingham, Ala. is the project contractor. The $19 million, four-story acute care hospital will provide full medical and surgery services. Completion is slated for spring 2006.

Cumberland Heights, an alcohol and chemical dependency treatment center, is planning to expand its River Road campus in West Nashville. The $12 million, 35,000-sf project consists of an adolescent residence facility that will add between 16 and 24 beds and a second building, the Family Life Center, housing a 150-seat auditorium, gymnasium, teaching and counseling rooms, and a fitness center. Construction is slated to begin later in 2005 and reach completion in late 2006 or early 2007. The project architect is Dixon Rick of Nashville.

Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton celebrated the grand opening of the recently completed Beachler Nursing University on February 17, 2004. The $1.3-million facility houses faculty offices, two classroom, an Internet cafe, and a conference room.

Gulf Breeze Hospital, part of Pensacola-based Baptist Health Care System, has completed a major improvement and expansion of its Gulf Breeze, Fla., facility. The three-phase project consisted of a 12,100-sf cancer center and outpatient rehabilitation facility, a 30,000-sf medical office building, and a 47,000-sf expansion that triples the footprint of the emergency department, doubles the size of the surgical services and diagnostic imaging departments, and adds a six-bed ICU. The project was constructed by a joint venture of F.E.

UPMC St. Margaret completed a $9.5 million expansion project in late 2004 that doubled the size of the hospital's existing emergency department. Designed by Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associates, the 19,000-sf department houses 16 exam rooms, 8 critical care treatment rooms, an infrared patient tracking system and an eight-bed holding suite. The emergency department is part of a new 32,000-sf, two-story addition that houses an isolated decontamination area. The $1.6 million in funding for the decontamination unit was supplied by the U.S.

Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute opened the new 8,000-sf Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Development in Oakland, Calif., in February 2005. The $5.6 million center was designed to accelerate research into serious infectious diseases for which no vaccines are available.

Carolinas HealthCare System has initiated construction on the 190,000-sf Morehead Medical Plaza. Designed by RTKL of Chicago, the master plan calls for a state-of-the-art outpatient medical campus on a 12-acre site adjacent to Carolina Medical Center in Charlotte. The 6-story medical office building, housing specialty clinics as well as independent physician offices, will be the anchor of the new outpatient care campus. A second outpatient facility will be developed in the future across the landscaped plaza.

The Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is planning to construct a 35,000-sf patient care facility and adjacent 10,000-sf surgical center in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. The project will triple research, patient care, and educational space for the eye institute, which is a unit of the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. The facility will accommodate over 90,000 patient visits annually.

Memorial Hospital West has completed a $25-million expansion of its Pembroke Pines, Fla., campus. The project included the creation of a cardiovascular intervention suite, expansion of endoscopy operations from three to five rooms, and the expansion of a surgical sterile processing area. Additionally, pre- and post-procedure areas were combined into one 51-bed unit that acts as a holding area for patients in the morning and a recovery room in the afternoon.

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is constructing Building One in Portland, Ore. The 400,000-sf, $145-million facility will house research laboratories, classrooms, outpatient practices, and a wellness center. Slated to open in mid-2006, the 16-story facility will be linked to the main OHSU campus by an overhead tram.