Healthcare

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) opened its new $21 million University Doctors Pavilion at its in November 2003. As one of the largest free-standing outpatient facilities in South Jersey, the completely remodeled structure includes a 57,000-sf wing, doubling the clinical space on the Stratford campus. The facility houses a standardized patient laboratory for student evaluation. UMDNJ is planning an additional $11 million in construction projects at the campus, including construction already under way on 20,000 sf to 22,000 sf of research laboratory facilities.

Kaiser Santa Teresa opened its expanded $8 million emergency department in South San Jose on Dec. 3, 2003. Quadrupling the size of the previous ER, the 17,700-sf facility features private rooms, an increase in bed count from 14 to 25, a delivery room, and a decontamination unit. A spine surgery center will open at the hospital in spring of 2004. Kaiser is also planning a $3.6 million expansion of the hospital pharmacy slated for completion by 2005 that will increase the pharmacy’s footprint threefold.

Alta Bates Hospital will launch a consolidated women and infants center at its Berkeley campus in July of 2004. Replacing the Oakland Summit campus maternity ward (which will become a cardiovascular services center) the $15 million project will include new labor, delivery, post-partum and recovery rooms, 90 percent of which will be private. The facility will also house a new women’s resource center. 

Kaiser Permanente opened its new $20-million emergency department and decontamination unit in Walnut Creek in mid-November, 2004. Tripling the size of the existing ER, the expansion increased the number of emergency rooms from 31 to 52, with a cardiac monitor and computer in each room. The 32,000-sf facility includes a small lab station for blood or urine samples which channels the samples through a tube at sixty miles per hour to a lab in the medical center within two seconds. The permanent mass decontamination unit includes eight decontamination showers.

Kaiser Permanente broke ground on November 14, 2003 on a new replacement hospital and central plant at the Panorama City Medical Center in Panorama City, Calif. The 400,000-sf, six-level building will be sited adjacent to the existing facility and will connect to it at the basement level. The project will meet the new seismic requirements for all general acute-care California hospitals imposed by Senate Bill 1953.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has dedicated its new South Tower. The 10-story facility is part of an ongoing $650 million West Philadelphia campus expansion project and will increase the hospital’s bed count from 430 to 381. The cardiac center and cardiac intensive-care unit will expand in the new tower, which will also accommodate oncology, emergency medicine, newborn intensive care, and pediatric intensive care and endocrinology.

Lourdes Health System is constructing a $53 million critical care expansion adjacent to Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden. Slated for completion in 2005, the 120,000-sf building will house four new operating suites, 42 new critical-care beds and 34 new critical-care step-down beds. The expansion will accommodate a new emergency department, larger inpatient rooms, a new and expanded school of nursing, rehabilitative and recuperative facilities for critical-care patients, centralized surgical units, and operating suites.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., has reached the halfway mark on its $166 million “Project for Progress”. Construction manager McCarthy is overseeing 460,000 sf of new construction and 350,000 sf of renovations to provide enhanced hospital accessibility and additional space for outpatient, emergency, and cancer treatment services. The project includes a 550-space parking structure and a new MRI. Completion is expected in winter of 2005.

Torrance Medical Center is constructing the 94,500-sf West Campus Tower in Torrance, Calif. Designed by Torrance-based Hamilton Klow & Associates, the 5-level facility includes an interconnecting bridge linking the tower to the existing hospital. Project contractor McCarthy will complete construction in spring of 2004.

Harvard Medical School has officially opened its new 8,500-sf conference center in Boston, Mass. Sited in the school’s 525,000-sf New Research Building, the facility features a 480-seat amphitheater, seven meeting rooms, and a café. 

The Lahey Clinic is planning a $135 million expansion of its Burlington, Mass. hospital. The project will add over seven stories, over 70 beds, a cancer center, four operation rooms, and a four-level parking garage with 1,200 spaces. The Lahey Clinic currently has 259 licensed beds.

Potomac Hospital broke ground in October 2003 on a 180,000-sf addition to its Woodbridge, D.C., hospital. The four-story, 144-bed facility will replace the inpatient care units as well as housing support services, a cafeteria, and an education center. Designed by McCulloch England Associates, the $75 million project is being constructed and managed by Bovis Lend Lease and Twin Contracting. Completion is scheduled for December 2005.

Stanford University Medical School is planning to create the Biotech Research Center for Children's Health with $700,000 in funding received from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.

Denver Health’s new $45.9 million expansion opened in June of 2003. The four-story, 143,000-sf wing brought intensive care unit bed space from eleven beds separated by curtains to 24 private rooms.  A secure 21-bed correctional inpatient and outpatient facility is located in the basement, with security cameras and doors and guard stations. The wing also houses 52 medical/surgical private rooms and space for orthopedic services. Gerald H. Phipps Construction was the general contractor for the project, which began in September 2001.

Sutter Health is working with affiliate Palo Alto Medical Foundation to build a 275,000-sf facility for Camino Medical Group in Mountain View, Calif. Sited on nine acres, the facility will house physician offices, a diagnostic center, outpatient operating rooms, a laboratory, a pharmacy, and an urgent-care center.