San Jose's El Camino Hospital is planning a new four-story, $298-million hospital. With 248 beds in 224 patient rooms, over 90% of the rooms in the new facility will be private. The 450,000-sf tower will be constructed in front of El Camino's existing hopsital; 124,000-sf of the single-story attached structure will be renovated for outpatient services, and the rest will be demolished. Plans detail an expanded emergency department, to be moved from the back of the hospital to the front, that will increase available beds from 22 to 28. A feature of the new facility will be the bedside flat-screen monitors to be used by nurses and doctors for record keeping, facilitating patient videoconferencing, and entertainment. A medical mall will house services including outpatient therapy, a pharmacy, optometry, massage therapy, nutrition consulting, medical supplies, and banking. The schematic phase of the design process will be completed by San Francisco architects Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz within six months. Construction is slated to begin in 2005, with the hospital to open in 2008.
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