Healthcare

The College of St. Scholastica opened the $17.1 million Health Science Pavilion in August of 2015 in Duluth, Minn. Located in the BlueStone business park, the three-story, 45,000-sf project provides labs and classrooms for occupational therapy, physical therapy, and physician assistant programs. Designed by HGA of Minneapolis and built by McGough Construction of St. Paul, the pavilion features an interdisciplinary health clinic to support experiential learning. Ground was broken on the project in August of 2015.

University of Colorado Health is planning to build a $185 million medical center on 22 acres in Greeley. Construction will begin in early 2017 on the $135 million UCHealth Greeley Hospital, a 153,000-sf facility providing a cardiology, surgery, emergency, and labor and delivery services. Occupancy is expected in late 2018. The project also includes the creation of the $50 million UCHealth Greeley Health Center, an outpatient medical office offering 192 exams rooms as well as laboratory and imaging suites.

Loma Linda University Health (LLUH) broke ground on the Troesh Hospital Complex in May of 2016 in Loma Linda, Calif. Designed by NBBJ, the project includes a 100-bed children's hospital tower and a 276-bed adult medical center. The complex is part of a $1.2 billion expansion that will accommodate the Wholeness Institute and a new research hub.

Banner-University Medical Center broke ground in May of 2016 on a $500 million hospital complex in Tucson. A 670,000-sf, nine-story tower will provide 200 private patient rooms, laboratories, operating rooms, diagnostic suites, and a cafeteria. A three-story outpatient clinic accommodating medical specialties, radiation oncology, and medical imaging will also be constructed. The $100 million clinic is slated for completion by early 2018, with the $400 million patient tower opening in early 2019.

Johns Hopkins Medicine is building the 225,000-sf Education and Research Facility at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla. Designed by HDR, the project will provide 30,000 sf of research and laboratory space, 30,000 sf of instructional space, 50,000 sf of office and administrative space, a 20,000-sf collaboration area, a 400-seat auditorium, and a biorepository.

The University of Vermont Medical Center will break ground in June of 2016 on a $174.9 million inpatient building in Burlington. The facility will include two floors of mechanical space and four patient care floors offering a total of 128 private rooms. Construction will begin on the project in fall of 2016 with occupancy expected in summer of 2019.

Mercy Health began construction in September of 2016 on a $271 million medical center in Muskegon, Mich. Designed by HGA Architects and Engineers to increase patient care efficiencies, the nine-story, 267-bed tower will consolidate inpatient services in a single location as well as housing an emergency department, a trauma center, and surgical suites. In the design process, two-dimensional modeling of each floor progressed to architectural designs and then to full-scale models to enhance the success of lean operational strategies.

The University of California, San Francisco is planning to build the Weill Institute for Neurosciences on its Mission Bay campus. The facility will provide both research laboratories and clinical space, and is supported by a donation of $185 million by Sanford and Joan Weill. Accommodating 45 principal investigators, the collaborative project will integrate the disciplines of neurology, neuroscience, genomics, chemistry, computer science, psychiatry, and engineering.

UConn Health opened a $326 million tower in April of 2016 at John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington. The 11-story, 381,309-sf facility provides 169 private inpatient rooms as well as an emergency department, an intensive care unit, and a surgical center. Designed to promote patient privacy and prevent infection transmission, the project was constructed with leading-edge medical and operational technologies to optimize the delivery of integrated patient care.

University of Miami Health System is building the $145 million Lennar Foundation Medical Center in Coral Gables, Fla. Designed by Perkins+Will, the five-story, 206,000-sf ambulatory care facility will accommodate specialty medical clinics for the Miller School of Medicine, including the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, as well as offering outpatient surgery, urgent care, radiation oncology, diagnostic imaging, and physical therapy.

Roswell Park Cancer Institute completed construction in April of 2016 on the $50.5 million Clinical Sciences Center in Buffalo, N.Y. Designed by FXFowle Architects, the 11-story, 142,000-sf project features an expanded chemotherapy clinic, a women's health center, research space, and patient care clinics. The facility also houses academic and administrative offices for physicians, researchers, and staff. The Clinical Sciences Center is located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and was built by LeChase Construction.

Carolinas HealthCare System will begin construction in early 2017 on a $125 million expansion of the Levine Cancer Institute in Charlotte, N.C. A seven-story, 260,000-sf outpatient center will be built adjacent to the Institute's existing headquarters to provide additional space for oncology clinics, infusion therapy suites, and specialty pharmacy services.

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital will begin construction in summer of 2016 on a 100,000-sf project in New Brunswick. Two new facilities totaling 50,000 sf will be constructed and 50,000 sf in the existing hospital will undergo renovation. The expansion will allow more space for emergency and intensive care as well as accommodating preoperative services. Completion is expected by summer of 2018. The project is part of a master facilities plan to strategically increase capacity on the academic medical center campus.

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital is planning to break ground in January of 2018 on a $567 million expansion and renovation of its Washington campus. A new six-story, 477,000-sf pavilion will provide 156 private inpatient rooms, advanced imaging suites, two floors of operating rooms, and an expanded emergency department. Existing hospital facilities will also undergo renovation.

Bayhealth will break ground in late May of 2016 on a $275 million hospital campus in Milford, Del. Providing 128 private beds, the project includes a six-story inpatient building, a 30-bay emergency department with behavioral health rooms, six surgical suites, two procedure rooms, and ambulatory care clinics. Illuminated by abundant natural light, the facility is designed to optimize the efficiency of staff operations as well as patient accessibility and navigation. Occupancy is expected by January of 2019.