Logan College of Chiropractic has opened a $4-million research and learning center in Chesterfield, Mo. Housing a distance learning facility, a computer lab with 75 Internet-equipped workstations, a library, and a collection of human skeletons and skulls, the center will accommodate anatomy and human science studies for students, teachers, and area chiropractors.
Seton Healthcare Network broke ground in early June 2004 on a 451,000-sf children’s hospital on the former site of the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in Austin, Texas. The $175-million, 169-bed hospital, called the Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, is slated for completion in 2007. The facility will include a 34-bed emergency department.
St. Joseph Hospital, an affiliate of Catholic Health System, broke ground on June 4, 2004 on an $11-million emergency department in Cheektowaga, N.Y. Slated for completion in 2005, the 15,000-sf department will be paperless, with all records, tests, and results transmitted electronically. Tripling the size of the current emergency department, the new ED will be able to treat over 40,000 patients annually.
Clear Lake Regional Medical Center in Webster, Texas is planning a $10 million expansion of its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Slated to begin construction in summer 2004 and reach completion in fall 2005, the project will quadruple the existing unit’s size from 5,000-sf to 20,000-sf.
Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas opened its expanded 51,000-sf surgery center in May of 2004. Featuring new surgical suites, ten new post-anesthesia recovery beds, 37 additional preoperation recovery rooms, and six preadmission testing rooms, the facility represents a 38 percent increase in day surgery capacity from 20,218 to approximately 28,000 annually. The surgery center is the final phase of a $51.8 million-expansion and renovation of Seton Medical Center which includes a larger emergency department, renovation of patient rooms, a new façade, chapel, and parking garage.
The University of California, San Francisco will invest over $500 million on capital projects at its Parnassus campus over the next five years. Planned new construction or renovations include:
Southern Indiana Rehab Hospital began a $1.1-million renovation of its New Albany, Ind., facility in May 2004. The addition to the 10-year-old, 60-bed inpatient facility will include space for pediatric therapy, outpatient therapy, psychology testing and offices, formal meeting rooms, staff offices, private treatment rooms, and a new waiting area. The project team is comprised of architectural firm Arrasmith, Judd, Rapp, Chovan, Inc. and general contractor Brasch Barry.
Children’s Hospital and Research Center at Oakland began construction in May on the $6-million Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Development. Housed in a reconfigured portion of the existing research center, the 9,900-sf facility will bring together different immunobiology and infectious disease research programs and develop vaccines to prevent them. Slated for completion in December, the new center will house several interactive laboratories, specialized, shared facilities including a BSL-3 facility, and office space. Completion is expected in December 2004.
Texas NeuroRehab Center broke ground in May 2004 on a $6.5-million project that will expand its long-term acute care unit from 31 beds to 47. The Austin center specializes in the treatment of traumatic brain injury, neurological illness, pulmonary disease, orthopedic, and other complex conditions. The project team on the 9,200-sf expansion includes LZT Architects of Austin and American Constructors. A therapeutic indoor pool may also be constructed at the center.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis opened the first phase of the Hamilton Eye Institute in early May 2004. The project includes ten research laboratories and a technologically advanced administrative suite equipped to provide telemedicine service. The facility will encompass 60,000-sf when it reaches completion in 2005. The final construction phase will create clinical facilities on the second, third, and fourth floors.
A new diagnostic biotech facility will be constructed on 100 acres south of the Texas Medical Center. The $80-million facility will be funded by $25 million from the Texas Enterprise Fund, $25 million each from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Texas Health Science Center, and $5 million from the University of Texas System.
Jewish Hospital Healthcare Services will break ground on $35.5-million outpatient care center in Hillview, Ky. in summer 2004. Designed by Meta Associates and Arrasmith, Judd, Rapp, Chovan Inc., the facility is expected to receive LEED™ certification for sustainable design. Housing four operating rooms/endoscopy suites, 16 pre-op/recovery beds, CT scanner, diagnostic imaging, mammography, MRI, bone densitometry, 24-hour emergency services, four observation rooms, and 14 private-primary care exam rooms, the facility is slated to open in February 2006.
Children’s Hospital in Denver will relocate to the Fitzsimons campus in Aurora in 2007. Sited on 41 acres at the University of Colorado’s Health Sciences Center biomedical campus, the new 1.1 million-sf, 270-bed hospital will cost $462.8 million. The facility will be one of the most technologically advanced pediatric hospitals in the country. The move to the Fitzsimons campus, which will include the research and education buildings, will reach a total of $1.3 billion. Parking will be added at the new campus, bringing the spaces from 1,700 up to 2,450.
Kaiser Permanente officially broke ground on May 7, 2004 on a new patient tower at West Los Angeles Medical Center. Developed by contractor McCarthy of Newport Beach, Calif., the new West Wing Tower will replace one of the existing hospital towers built in 1974. The $80-million project includes construction of the five-level, 200,000-sf tower and a 65-foot long connecting structure that will join all five floors of the tower to the existing south and center towers.
Memorial Hermann Health Care System is planning to construct a new $93-million replacement hospital in the Sugar Land area of Fort Bend County, Texas. Tripling the footprint of the current Missouri City facility, the project will add ten inpatient beds for a total of 75 private rooms. Renamed the Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital, the facility will be accompanied by a professional office building; both will open in 2006.
