The University of Kansas Medical Center opened its $21-million sixth floor expansion in early July 2003. One-third of the 80,000-sf project will be used immediately for a 22-bed medical/surgical unit and a 14-bed intensive care unit. The other two-thirds of the facility will be used as patient volumes increase. A new helicopter landing pad will be ready in mid-August 2003.
KU Medical Center is also planning to build a $72-million dedicated heart, lung, and vascular hospital. Ground will be broken on the new facility by November of 2003; construction will reach completion within 36 months. J.E. Dunn Construction will build the new hospital, which will include a new ground-floor emergency department and house 94 beds for intensive care, inpatient telemetry and outpatient procedures.
