Healthcare

Baptist Health System  is beginning construction on the redesigned Baptist Coosa Valley Medical Center in Sylacauga, Mass. Part of a $44.3-million initiative that began in 1998 with the $11-million replacement of the hospital's emergency department, surgery suites and admitting area, the renovation and expansion project is designed by the Birmingham, Ala., office of Newton-based TRO/The Ritchie Organization and project partners Birchfield Peneul & Associates LLC of Birmingham.

The Texas Pain Institute has broken ground on a $1.5-million facility. The two-story, 14,000-sf facility is part of the planned La Hacienda de Salud medical subdivision sited on 5.92 acres in San Antonio's South Texas Medical Center. The development, where physicians will own their own land and buildings, will eventually total up to 70,000-sf of health care and related space in nine buildings and cost approximately $10-million.

Melrose-Wakefield Hospital has opened a state-of-the-art, expanded endoscopy suite in Melrose, Mass.  The $2-million facility includes 5 procedure rooms and 14 admitting/recovery rooms.

Seton Healthcare Network is planning medical offices comprising over 100,000 sf to be constructed adjacent to its planned $70-million, 451,000-sf children's hospital in Northeast Austin. The offices, estimated to cost $30-million, will be financed and built by a private developer. The two facilities are Seton's newest medical campus and will deliver in January 2007. The project is sited on 28 acres and includes a parking garage. Seton will solicit construction bids for the development in spring 2003.

Sentara Healthcare is nearing completion of its $61-million, 5-story replacement hospital. The facility will contain 200 beds (194 licensed) spread over 338,000 sf of new construction, and is one of the first in the nation to include a wireless phone and data backbone PACs along with an e-ICU and all "smart" operating rooms. Additional work included the relocation of the facility's central utility plant and renovation of the existing 32,000-sf outpatient clinic.

Spring Valley Hospital is under construction in Las Vegas. The $45-million, 310,000-sf facility is being built by contractor McCarthy using a combination of pre-cast and cast-in-place concrete. Designed by architect HKS of Dallas, the 176-bed hospital features a one-story diagnostic and treatment center housing ambulatory surgery services, radiology, and surgical and emergency suites. The facility is slated for completion in fall 2003.

Construction of the new Norfolk Cancer Center in Brockton has been completed by East Coast Commercial Construction. The facility is one of the few stand-alone cancer centers in the South Shore area.

The construction of SouthShoreHospital's maternity/surgery/emergency expansion project in Newton, Mass., is now completed. The expansion, involving 125,000-sf of new construction and 55,000-sf of renovations on four levels, was designed by TRO/The Ritchie Organization. The new surgical department, one of the region's most technically advanced, includes 14 operating rooms, 1 cystoscopy room, a 30-bed ambulatory surgical unit, and a 30-bed post-anesthesia care unit.

The University of California San Diego (UCSD) began construction on the $100-million Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center located on the school's east campus in La Jolla. Slated for completion in 2004, the 270,000-sf facility will be one of 40 buildings in the nation designated by the National Cancer Institute as a Comprehensive Cancer Center. Consolidating people and programs currently dispersed in various campus buildings, the center will house over 300 scientists, physicians and staff engaged in clinical, research, education, and outreach operations.

Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana has awarded the Dallas office of RTKL the architectural design contract for the development of the Cardiovascular Center of Excellence. The new approximately 75,000-sf, $32-million addition will consolidate all cardiovascular, neurovascular, and peripheral vascular services in one state-of-the-art location. The project, which is already underway, is slated for completion in the fourth quarter of 2004.  

St. Luke's Hospital, an affiliate of Sutter Health System, is constructing a $6.4-million heart center featuring a cardiac catheterization lab. The center, which will also house equipment for non-invasive diagnostic procedures such as echocardiograms and stress tests, is expected to open in spring of 2003.

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is planning the Mission Bay Cancer Research Center. The research facility, expected to reach completion in 2006, will cost over $100-million. UCSF plans to develop a total of 2.65 million sf of biomedical laboratory and instructional space at its Mission Bay campus, for a construction cost of more than $2-billion.

The South Texas Blood & Tissue Center (STBTC) will soon complete a 44,000-sf expansion that will include a nucleic acid testing laboratory enabling earlier detection of Hepatitis C and HIV. The testing process will provide over 80 hospitals and clinics with the highest quality of blood available. The $10-million expansion will increase STBTC's headquarters to 125,000-sf and will include expanded facilities for umbilical blood storage.

Loudon Hospital in Leesburg, Va., is engaged in a 9,400-sf renovation of its Cornwall campus that will add a 16-bed emergency department. The $2.1-million project, slated for completion in mid-January 2003, is designed to give the hospital the flexibility to convert at least an additional 20 beds for emergency care in the event of a terrorist attack. The two-building Cornwall campus, originally constructed in 1912, may be renamed the Western Loudoun Medical Center.

Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) in Annapolis, Md., is engaged in a $13-million expansion and renovation of its two-story Cancer Center. Project expenses involve $4-million in construction costs and $9-million for new technology, including NOVALIS, which utilizes imaging and targeting software to direct an energy beam delivery system for the destruction of tumors. The first floor of the center will open in January 2003. AAMC is also developing a new radiosurgery technology program.