Healthcare

Sentara Healthcare is nearing completion of its $61-million, 5-story replacement hospital. The facility will contain 200 beds (194 licensed) spread over 338,000 sf of new construction, and is one of the first in the nation to include a wireless phone and data backbone PACs along with an e-ICU and all "smart" operating rooms. Additional work included the relocation of the facility's central utility plant and renovation of the existing 32,000-sf outpatient clinic.

Spring Valley Hospital is under construction in Las Vegas. The $45-million, 310,000-sf facility is being built by contractor McCarthy using a combination of pre-cast and cast-in-place concrete. Designed by architect HKS of Dallas, the 176-bed hospital features a one-story diagnostic and treatment center housing ambulatory surgery services, radiology, and surgical and emergency suites. The facility is slated for completion in fall 2003.

Construction of the new Norfolk Cancer Center in Brockton has been completed by East Coast Commercial Construction. The facility is one of the few stand-alone cancer centers in the South Shore area.

The construction of SouthShoreHospital's maternity/surgery/emergency expansion project in Newton, Mass., is now completed. The expansion, involving 125,000-sf of new construction and 55,000-sf of renovations on four levels, was designed by TRO/The Ritchie Organization. The new surgical department, one of the region's most technically advanced, includes 14 operating rooms, 1 cystoscopy room, a 30-bed ambulatory surgical unit, and a 30-bed post-anesthesia care unit.

The University of California San Diego (UCSD) began construction on the $100-million Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center located on the school's east campus in La Jolla. Slated for completion in 2004, the 270,000-sf facility will be one of 40 buildings in the nation designated by the National Cancer Institute as a Comprehensive Cancer Center. Consolidating people and programs currently dispersed in various campus buildings, the center will house over 300 scientists, physicians and staff engaged in clinical, research, education, and outreach operations.

Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana has awarded the Dallas office of RTKL the architectural design contract for the development of the Cardiovascular Center of Excellence. The new approximately 75,000-sf, $32-million addition will consolidate all cardiovascular, neurovascular, and peripheral vascular services in one state-of-the-art location. The project, which is already underway, is slated for completion in the fourth quarter of 2004.  

St. Luke's Hospital, an affiliate of Sutter Health System, is constructing a $6.4-million heart center featuring a cardiac catheterization lab. The center, which will also house equipment for non-invasive diagnostic procedures such as echocardiograms and stress tests, is expected to open in spring of 2003.

The South Texas Blood & Tissue Center (STBTC) will soon complete a 44,000-sf expansion that will include a nucleic acid testing laboratory enabling earlier detection of Hepatitis C and HIV. The testing process will provide over 80 hospitals and clinics with the highest quality of blood available. The $10-million expansion will increase STBTC's headquarters to 125,000-sf and will include expanded facilities for umbilical blood storage.

Loudon Hospital in Leesburg, Va., is engaged in a 9,400-sf renovation of its Cornwall campus that will add a 16-bed emergency department. The $2.1-million project, slated for completion in mid-January 2003, is designed to give the hospital the flexibility to convert at least an additional 20 beds for emergency care in the event of a terrorist attack. The two-building Cornwall campus, originally constructed in 1912, may be renamed the Western Loudoun Medical Center.

Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) in Annapolis, Md., is engaged in a $13-million expansion and renovation of its two-story Cancer Center. Project expenses involve $4-million in construction costs and $9-million for new technology, including NOVALIS, which utilizes imaging and targeting software to direct an energy beam delivery system for the destruction of tumors. The first floor of the center will open in January 2003. AAMC is also developing a new radiosurgery technology program.   

John Muir/Diablo Primary Care Medical Group will occupy 10,000 sf at San Ramon's Bishop Ranch 9 business park. Initially housing x-ray, laboratory, and pediatric functions, the facility will also open an urgent care facility in spring of 2003. John Muir/Mt. Diablo Health System is the first medical tenant in the park, where it plans to expand in the future.

The University of North Carolina School of Medicine is nearing completion of the $23.5-million Bioinformatics Building in Chapel Hill. The 152,000-sf project was designed by Brown Jurkowski Architectural Collaborative PA. Contractor for the project is Clancy & Theys. The engineering team includes GKC Associates (structural); Newcomb & Boyd (mechanical, electrical, fire protection, audio/visual); Diehl & Phillips (civil); and Donna D.

The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio is broke ground in December on a new $20-million research facility in Edinburg, one of three new facilities being constructed as part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Regional Academic Health Center (RAHC). Sited on 12 acres adjacent to the University of Texas Pan American campus, the Edinburg facility will house RAHC's medical research division.

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is planning the Mission Bay Cancer Research Center. The research facility, expected to reach completion in 2006, will cost over $100-million. UCSF plans to develop a total of 2.65 million sf of biomedical laboratory and instructional space at its Mission Bay campus, for a construction cost of more than $2-billion.

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla has launched the construction of the new Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center, a 270,000-sf facility that will unite the Cancer Center's clinical, research, education, and outreach activities under one roof. Completion of the building, designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership of Los Angeles, is scheduled for 2004. The Cancer Center is one of only 40 in the United States to hold a National Cancer Institute designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center.