Healthcare

Kaiser Permanente officially broke ground on May 7, 2004 on a new patient tower at West Los Angeles Medical Center. Developed by contractor McCarthy of Newport Beach, Calif., the new West Wing Tower will replace one of the existing hospital towers built in 1974. The $80-million project includes construction of the five-level, 200,000-sf tower and a 65-foot long connecting structure that will join all five floors of the tower to the existing south and center towers.

Memorial Hermann Health Care System is planning to construct a new $93-million replacement hospital in the Sugar Land area of Fort Bend County, Texas. Tripling the footprint of the current Missouri City facility, the project will add ten inpatient beds for a total of 75 private rooms. Renamed the Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital, the facility will be accompanied by a professional office building; both will open in 2006.

Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center broke ground on a new $9-million expansion project in Houston on May 11, 2004. Adding a 12-bed intensive care unit in a newly constructed 27,000-sf, two-story building, the facility will have the capacity for 24 additional medical/surgical beds on the second floor. Upon completion, Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center will have approximately 180 licensed beds and 22 ICU beds; the existing ten-bed ICU will remain operational. Over 300 parking spaces will be added.

St. Joseph Hospital broke ground in March 2004 on a new four-story, 240,000-sf patient care tower in Orange, Calif. Complete with a full basement and a 13,000-sf central plant, the tower will feature 150 patient beds and 14 operating rooms. Built in a confined space between two healthcare facilities with round the clock operations, the tower is slated for completion in April 2007. The project architect is NBBJ of Seattle, with McCarthy as project contractor.

Tampa General Hospital has selected  Skanska USA Building to provide construction management services for a $120-million expansion project. The project’s construction value is estimated at $65 million. Comprised of a four-story addition over an existing surface parking area, the 280,000-sf project will provide a new emergency department and operating rooms, a new women’s center, a new cardiovascular center, and a new intensive care suite. To support the increased infrastructure, the central energy plant will also be expanded.

Tenet Healthcare Corp. opened the Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett in Memphis, Tenn., in May 2004. Construction cost for the facility was approximately $72 million.

Centennial Medical Center, a 118-bed hospital in Frisco, Texas, will open in June 2004. A subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare Corp., the hospital cost approximately $125 million in construction and other costs.

Bourbon Community Hospital has completed construction of a medical office building and emergency room modification in Paris, Ky. The single-floor, 11,200-sf, $1-million office facility will accommodate five tenants. The $1.3-million emergency room renovated the existing 1,700-sf department and expanded it by 6,300 sf. Both projects were designed by Sims Architectural Studio of Birmingham, Ala.

Johns Hopkins Hospital has completed the design of a new $47-million complex to be located in Baltimore, Md. Linked to the existing campus and the planned cardiovascular care tower and children’s hospital by a pedestrian bridge, the complex will include a 750,000-sf parking garage with 2,200 spaces, a 24-truck loading dock, a service tunnel, a central kitchen, and a distribution center. Designed by Thornton-Tomasetti-Cutts of Washington, D.C., the project is expected to reach completion in 2005.

Aurora Health Care is planning an $85-million, 88-bed hospital as part of a new medical campus on the Pabst Farms development in the Town of Summit, Wis. Sited on 184 acres, the new full-service hospital will feature the latest equipment for diagnosis and treatment, a comprehensive electronic medical record system, and all-digital diagnostics. 

Methodist Health System of Dallas is planning to construct a $100-million general acute-care hospital in Mansfield, Texas. Housing emergency room services, surgical accommodations, and 80 private rooms, the facility will be constructed on more than one million sf and will complement Methodist’s planned imaging center and physician offices in Midlothian. Construction is expected to begin by November 2004; the hospital could become operational in 28 months to three years.

Ellis Hospital in Schenectady  is planning to break ground on a $20-million intensive care unit in October 2004. Replacing the current 20-bed facility that was built in 1973, the new unit will be relocated next to the hospital’s other critical care services. Construction on the 36-bed unit is expected to last about 18 months.

The Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health Clinic will begin construction in June 2004 on a 42,000-sf facility in Mesa, Ariz. The school will occupy 30,000 sf; the remaining space will be used as medical offices. Completion is expected in April 2005. The building will be located in the Arizona Health and Technology Park, a $100-million development planned by The Alter Group of Phoenix and the A.T. Still University of Health Sciences.

The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center has selected California-based Shea Properties to redevelop its 30-acre 9th Avenue campus in Aurora, Colo. The campus, housing the 350-bed University Hospital, the Graduate School of Medicine, and the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, and Pharmacy, accommodates over 60 clinical treatment and research programs. Plans for the site describe a large mixed-use development including office, retail, residential, and parking.

Mayo Clinic Hospitals broke ground in April 2004 on a 162,000-sf outpatient clinic on its campus in Northeast Phoenix. Slated for completion in late 2005, the facility will house radiation, oncology, and transplant services.