Community Hospital North, part of Indiana's Community Health Network, has awarded the design contract for its new 850,000-sf expansion in Indianapolis to the Dallas office of RTKL. Groundbreaking was held recently for the $170-million construction project, which is expected to reach completion in early 2007. The project will effectively double the size of the facility and will include three new structures: a six-story tower, which will be added to the front of the existing hospital; a five-story professional office building, which will connect to the hospital on every level; and a six-level parking structure. The project also includes renovating 130,000 sf of the existing hospital.
The new 400,000-sf tower will house a specialty women's and children's hospital with 60 private labor-delivery-recovery-post partum (LRDP) rooms, making it one of the largest in the country. The tower also includes a 22-bed pediatric wing, 36 private neonatal intensive care rooms, 48 private medical/surgical rooms, and a shell floor for 48 additional medical/surgical patient rooms. When complete, the expansion will increase Community North's bed capacity from the current 176 to 296 beds, with a future capacity of 334 beds. BSA Life-Structures of Indianapolis is the project engineer.
