Integra Health of San Antonio is developing "professional condominiums" for the medical industry in two office parks in the city. The individual units, for sale rather than lease, will range in size from 4,000 sf to 6,000 sf. Phase one of the 15,000-sf Stone Oak Professional Condominiums project, located on 8.5-acres on the North Central side of the city, will reach completion by late summer 2003.
A new 215,000-sf medical office campus will be developed adjacent to Sharp Memorial Hospital in Kearney Mesa, Calif. Two Dallas-based firms, architect Perkins & Will CRA and developer Cambridge Holdings, are planning the three-phase project. The first phase will be comprised of a 100,000-sf, four-story medical office facility with underground parking for physicians, and an 800-car, six-level parking structure for visitors and patients. The second phase will be a new 65,000-sf medical office building. The third phase will be a 50,000-sf facility.
O'Connor Hospital in San Jose approved a three-year strategic plan in November 2002 that will expand physician office space and enhance orthopedic and cardiovascular services. O'Connor will remodel a recently purchased a 32,000-sf building on the city's east side to house a new primary care clinic. The facility will open by year-end 2003. A new $7-million emergency department, relocated from the back of the hospital to the front, will double existing emergency facilities to house 22 beds and will include an urgent care unit.
Tulsa Heart Hospital of Saint Francis recently broke ground on its 141,000-sf facility in Tulsa, Okla. The project, a joint partnership of local physicians and Saint Francis Health System, is being managed by the Dallas-based Texas Division of contractor McCarthy. The three-story, 104-bed facility, providing both inpatient and outpatient care, will be equipped for diagnostic testing, cardiac angiography, coronary stents, peripheral angiography, open heart surgery, electrophysiology therapies and arrhythmia management.
Columbia St. Mary's Hospital has selected Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK) as lead architect for its new Lake Drive Campus hospital in Milwaukee. The project is a consolidation of the existing St. Mary's and Columbia campuses into a single new replacement facility to be constructed on a prominent site overlooking Lake Michigan.
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National Surgical Hospitals (NSH) opened the 30-bed Spine Hospital of South Texas and an accompanying medical office building in September. A joint venture of NSH and approximately 20 local physicians, the $30-million Stone Oak medical development will specialize in surgical spine care and pain management. The facility is designed to eventually expand to 40 rooms.
Kaiser Permanente has completed construction of the new $20-million Parkview Medical Office Building on Kaiser's Harbor City Medical Center Campus in Harbor City, Calif. The three-story, 106,000-sf structure houses exam and procedure rooms, allowing for ophthalmology, optometry, optical sales, pharmacy, urology, gastroenterology, surgery clinic, oncology, care management, pain clinic, and diagnostic imaging services to be performed at the site.
Crittenton Hospital Medical Center is planning an $86-million expansion and renovation of its Rochester Hills hospital. Albert Kahn Associates is providing full architectural and engineering services for the 140,000-sf multi-phase project. The new facility will include a women and children's center, expanded inpatient and outpatient surgery centers, radiology and emergency departments, OB/GYN and orthopedic areas, a chest pain clinic, adult and pediatric urgent care areas, an education center and a gift shop.
Kaiser Permanente is building the $327-million Santa Clara Hospital. The 1.2-million-sf hospital and medical office complex will be accompanied by a four-story, 1,470-car parking garage which will break ground in November 2002. The first phase of construction includes a 550,000-sf medical office building and a 300,000-sf ancillary building expected to open in fall of 2004. The second phase consists of a three-story, 400,000-sf hospital with a new cardiovascular surgery center slated to open in 2006.
Stanford University is constructing the $161-million Center for Cancer Treatment and Prevention/Ambulatory Care Pavilion. Slated to open in spring of 2004, the oncology center will unite Stanford's diagnostic, treatment and research facilities in a single location.
Holyoke Hospital and Payette Associates recently broke ground on a 34,000-sf expansion and renovation of the hospital's existing facility.
Cascade Health Services has awarded a $65 million contract to Skanska USA Building Inc. for expansion and renovation of Cascade's hospital facilities at the St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, and at the Central Oregon Community Hospital in Redmond, Ore. The assignment includes a total of 290,000 sf, of which 200,000 sf involves new construction. The new buildings will house such facilities as a cancer treatment center, a rehabilitation center, a childcare center, and a birthing center.
Kaiser Permanente is constructing a new 17,000-sf, $15-million emergency room at Santa Teresa Medical Center in San Jose. The facility is being constructed by contractor Rudolph & Sletten.
Kaiser Permanente will occupy a 29,812-sf training facility and a 50,885-sf reference lab in Catellus Development's Regatta Business Park in Richmond. The 80,697-sf lease is in addition to Kaiser's existing 37,960-sf optical lab in the park. The new facilities will bring an additional 100 Kaiser employees to the site.
