Healthcare

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis opened the first phase of the Hamilton Eye Institute in early May 2004. The project includes ten research laboratories and a technologically advanced administrative suite equipped to provide telemedicine service. The facility will encompass 60,000-sf when it reaches completion in 2005. The final construction phase will create clinical facilities on the second, third, and fourth floors.

A new diagnostic biotech facility will be constructed on 100 acres south of the Texas Medical Center. The $80-million facility will be funded by $25 million from the Texas Enterprise Fund, $25 million each from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Texas Health Science Center, and $5 million from the University of Texas System.

Jewish Hospital Healthcare Services will break ground on $35.5-million outpatient care center in Hillview, Ky. in summer 2004. Designed by Meta Associates and Arrasmith, Judd, Rapp, Chovan Inc., the facility is expected to receive LEED™ certification for sustainable design. Housing four operating rooms/endoscopy suites, 16 pre-op/recovery beds, CT scanner, diagnostic imaging, mammography, MRI, bone densitometry, 24-hour emergency services, four observation rooms, and 14 private-primary care exam rooms, the facility is slated to open in February 2006.

Children’s Hospital in Denver will relocate to the Fitzsimons campus in Aurora in 2007. Sited on 41 acres at the University of Colorado’s Health Sciences Center biomedical campus, the new 1.1 million-sf, 270-bed hospital will cost $462.8 million. The facility will be one of the most technologically advanced pediatric hospitals in the country. The move to the Fitzsimons campus, which will include the research and education buildings, will reach a total of $1.3 billion. Parking will be added at the new campus, bringing the spaces from 1,700 up to 2,450.

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.