St. Joseph Health System has selected McCarthy Building Companies as the general contractor for a major addition to Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif. Construction began in March 2007 on the critical care hospital addition that will allow Mission Hospital to provide the most advanced diagnostic and critical care services to its community. The project includes the construction of a four-level critical care patient tower, plus a basement that will provide an additional 64 private patient rooms to the existing 317-bed critical care tower. The new facility will house 24 medical/surgical beds, 40 ICU beds (20 per floor), diagnostic imaging, nuclear medicine, a linear accelerator, a chapel, and a meditation garden, as well as support and mechanical space. McCarthy will also construct a 175-ft pedestrian bridge that will connect the new patient tower with the main hospital building on the third floor.
The base construction cost for the project is anticipated at $67 million. Slated for completion in September 2009, the project also includes eleven months of significant site work such as the installation of new utilities, re-configuring the entrance to the hospital and parking lot, and demolishing an existing two-story conference center. Designed by RBB Architects Inc. of Los Angeles, the new patient tower will promote healing for patients, a comfortable atmosphere for families, and a state-of-the-art working environment for staff. In addition to the patient tower at Mission Hospital, McCarthy is currently providing construction services on other projects for St. Joseph Health System. These include the new Patient Care Center and a cancer center with a related medical office building and parking structure at St. Joseph Hospital in the city of Orange, Calif.., as well as a medical office building and parking structure at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, Calif.
