Hoag Memorial Hospital Plans Women's Pavilion

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has awarded McCarthy Building Companies a contract to build the new Women's Pavilion. Scheduled to begin construction in fall 2002, the new tower will consolidate women's services in one facility and will free up space in the existing tower to expand emergency care, outpatient and other hospital programs. Designed by Taylor & Associates Architects of Newport Beach, the 309,000-sf, seven-level tower includes a basement and a mechanical penthouse. An 11,000-sf, 2-level connector building with a cafe and gift shop will also be built. When completed in 2005, the Women's Pavilion will house inpatient and outpatient facilities for women's services as well as general surgical facilities for men and women. The new birthing facilities will include a maternity unit with 49 private rooms; 18 labor-delivery-recovery suites; a 21-bassinet neonatal intensive care unit with special overnight suite for parents; a seven-bed antepartum unit; and fetal diagnostics. Located in a Level 4 Seismic Zone, the new Women's Pavilion will be a base-isolated structure designed to make the facility safer during a code-level earthquake. Structural engineer on the tower is Taylor & Gaines Structural Engineers. Silver Town UK Limited will manufacture the base isolators.