Washington Hospital has earmarked $150,000 to build a skills training laboratory for nursing students on the hospital's campus in Fremont. The facility will house 12 beds and feature leading-edge medical technology.
Northside Hospital in Atlanta plans to begin construction on a five-story medical office facility in summer of 2003. The tower will be constructed atop an existing parking facility. Northside is also seeking state approval to build a $10.7-million, 1,000-car parking deck adjacent to its women's center. The hospital hopes to initiate construction on the nine-level parking deck in March 2003 and reach completion in early 2004.
The nonprofit Piedmont Hospital will relocate administrative operations including accounts payable, financial services, and materials management to 48,400 sf of leased space at the One and Two Paces West complex in Atlanta.
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh is planning to construct a new $500-million hospital and pediatric research facility on the site of the now-closed St. Francis Medical Center campus in Lawrenceville, Penn. Designed by L.D. Astorino Cos., the project is slated for completion in 2007. An inpatient tower, pediatric research facility, ambulatory care center, and parking garage are included in the project.
Carolinas HealthCare System is planning a $70-million expansion of Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, the system's flagship hospital. The project will add four floors to the top of the existing surgery tower and will include major expansion of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, the Trauma Intensive Care Unit, and the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit.
Columbia St. Mary's is planning to break ground on its new Lake Drive Campus hospital facility in Spring 2004. Sited where the present St. Mary's hospital now stands, the facility is slated for occupancy in 2009. Lead architect for the project is Hellmuth Obata + Kassabaum (HOK) with Kahler Slater and Plunkett Rayisch Architects providing architectural support during construction.
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center has topped out its new $221.9-million George and Cynthia Mitchell Basic Sciences Research Building. Slated for completion and initial occupancy in November, the 18-story, 500,000-sf facility is expected to be fully operational in June 2004. Located in Houston's Texas Medical Center, the building will house six floors of research laboratories, an auditorium, conference facilities, small-animal vivariums, and classrooms for the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston.
Baptist Health System is beginning construction on the redesigned Baptist Coosa Valley Medical Center in Sylacauga, Mass. Part of a $44.3-million initiative that began in 1998 with the $11-million replacement of the hospital's emergency department, surgery suites and admitting area, the renovation and expansion project is designed by the Birmingham, Ala., office of Newton-based TRO/The Ritchie Organization and project partners Birchfield Peneul & Associates LLC of Birmingham.
The Texas Pain Institute has broken ground on a $1.5-million facility. The two-story, 14,000-sf facility is part of the planned La Hacienda de Salud medical subdivision sited on 5.92 acres in San Antonio's South Texas Medical Center. The development, where physicians will own their own land and buildings, will eventually total up to 70,000-sf of health care and related space in nine buildings and cost approximately $10-million.
Southwest Regional Cancer Center will relocate its main clinic to 31,000 sf on one and a half floors of the new Midtown Medical Office building, now under construction in central Austin. The relocation will enable the center to double the size of its primary clinic which provides treatment for hematology and oncology patients. Ground was broken on the 82,000-sf Class A office building and 524-space parking garage late last year. The $22-million complex is expected to open in 2004. The developer for the project is HTH Capital Ltd.
Caritas Norwood Hospital's 12,000-sf outpatient radiation oncology expansion is being designed by TRO/The Ritchie Organization of Newton, Mass. Slated for completion in April 2003, the one-level addition will connect to the existing facility via a new main vestibule.
Melrose-Wakefield Hospital has opened a state-of-the-art, expanded endoscopy suite in Melrose, Mass. The $2-million facility includes 5 procedure rooms and 14 admitting/recovery rooms.
Seton Healthcare Network is planning medical offices comprising over 100,000 sf to be constructed adjacent to its planned $70-million, 451,000-sf children's hospital in Northeast Austin. The offices, estimated to cost $30-million, will be financed and built by a private developer. The two facilities are Seton's newest medical campus and will deliver in January 2007. The project is sited on 28 acres and includes a parking garage. Seton will solicit construction bids for the development in spring 2003.
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.
