Healthcare

UC San Diego Health System will begin construction in early 2012 on the 490,000-sf Jacobs Medical Center in La Jolla. The ten-story facility will provide 245 inpatient beds and will house the Hospital for Women and Children, the Cancer Hospital, and the Hospital for Advanced Surgery. Completion is expected in June of 2016. Designed to promote translational research, the $664 million facility will support interdisciplinary medical education and training. 

Kaiser Permanente is partnering with Recurrent Energy to install solar power systems at 15 hospitals in California. Slated for completion by summer of 2011, the project will enable Kaiser to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The photovoltaic systems will produce approximately ten percent of the energy used annually at the sites.

Rush University Medical Center is building a $575 million hospital in Chicago. The 14-story, 806,000-sf facility was designed by Perkins+Will and is slated for occupancy in 2012. Construction began on the 300-bed facility in fall of 2008. LEED Gold sustainable design certification will be sought for the project. The construction manager is Powers/Jacobs.

Sanford Health is consolidating its medical research operations in Sioux Falls, S.D. The facility will open by June of 2010 upon completion of renovations to the existing structure, a former computer parts manufacturing plant. Housing laboratories and offices in two joined towers, the 300,000-sf complex will include a vivarium for animal research.

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School was awarded $15 million by the National Institutes of Health in March of 2010 to support laboratory renovations. The award will enable UMDNJ-NJMS to conduct advanced biomedical research in updated lab facilities.

Med Fusion, a partnership of Baylor Health Care System, Texas Oncology, Pathologists Biomedical Laboratories, and US Oncology, will begin offering integrated translational research services in spring of 2010. The company is headquartered in Dallas and has leased a 172,000-sf facility in Lewisville. Med Fusion will provide integrated pharmaceutical development and clinical trial services.

The University of Arizona College of Medicine will begin construction in late spring of 2010 on the $187 million Health Sciences Education Building. Located on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus, the 268,000-sf facility will be created in partnership with Arizona State University’s College of Nursing.

Mid-Western Regional Hospital will begin construction in August of 2010 on the €35 million Critical Care Unit in Dooradoyle in the Republic of Ireland. The facility will be designed and built by John Sisk & Son. The six-story Critical Care Unit will provide of a 12-bed ICU, a 16-bed coronary care facility, a cardiac catheterization lab, emergency care, diagnostics, and acute surgery facilities. Each floor will have a footprint of approximately 1450 sm. Completion is expected by the end of 2011.

Rowan University is partnering with Cooper University Hospital to construct Cooper Medical School in Camden, N.J. Construction will begin by June of 2010 and reach completion in 2011. The 160,000-sf campus will house classrooms, laboratories, a library, offices, and a vivarium for animal research.

Murray-Calloway County Hospital opened the $62 million South Tower in March of 2010. Located in Murray, Ky., the five-story, 158,000-sf facility features an emergency room, a helipad, inpatient rooms, imaging and radiology labs, surgical suites, and a critical care unit.

St. Mary’s Medical Center broke ground on the $23 million Cancer Center in San Francisco in March of 2010. The 14,200-sf facility will feature a digital mammography suite. The project is part of $26 million capital improvement plan that will include a new vascular suite in the hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab. 

Palo Alto Medical Foundation is constructing a $23 million breast cancer center in Palo Alto, Calif. The two-story, 20,000-sf facility is slated for completion in late 2010. Ground was broken on the project in fall of 2009. The center will house outpatient care, imaging, and office space.

Mercy Memorial Hospital broke ground on the Monroe Cancer Center in March of 2010. Created in partnership with ProMedica Health System of Toledo and Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center of Detroit, the 10,000-sf facility will be a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center offering integrated medical and radiation oncology services. The project team includes architect Hobb and Black Associates of Ann Arbor and construction manager Contracting Resources of Brighton, Mich.

Portneuf Medical Center is building a $220 million hospital in Pocatello, Idaho. Slated for completion in summer of 2010, the 385,000-sf facility will feature an emergency room with trauma suites, 15 operating rooms, a helipad, and private inpatient rooms. The general contractor for the project is Layton Construction.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was awarded nearly $15 million in stimulus funding in March of 2010 to renovate laboratories at its main campus in Baltimore. The project will created updated labs in the 45-year old Hume Wing. Construction will begin in late summer of 2011.