Healthcare

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare will break ground in October of 2011 on a $137 million hospital in Olive Branch, Miss. The four-story, 100-bed facility will be built to achieve LEED sustainable design certification. The integrated design and construction team for the project includes Gresham, Smith and Partners, Smith Seckman Reid, and Turner Construction. The hospital will implement LEAN and evidence-based design principles to maximize operational effectiveness and patient well-being.

St. Francis Hospital will break ground in October of 2011 on a $110 million expansion in Columbus, Ga. The project includes a four-story, 189,131-sf clinical services building and a four-story, 169,000-sf medical office building. The expansion will provide a total of 230 private rooms, a women's health center, and seven operating rooms. The general contractor is Skanska USA Building. Completion is expected in early 2013.

Slidell Memorial Hospital has awarded KLMK Group the project management contract for a 56,000-sf emergency room and cardiology expansion in Slidell, La. Construction will begin in March 2012 and reach completion in June of 2013. The project will support quicker patient admittance, assessment, and discharge, as well as providing additional private inpatient rooms.

Terrebonne General Medical Center will open the $14.8 million Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Care Center in September of 2011. Located in Houma, La., the three-story, 49,000-sf comprehensive cancer facility will provide surgery, oncology, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, inpatient care, and space for clinical research trials. LEED Silver sustainable design certification will be sought for the project, which features energy efficient building systems and enhanced indoor air quality. The center was built by McDonnel Group of Metairie. 

The $500 million Pasteur Hospital 2 is under construction in Nice, France. The 871,876-sf academic medical center will provide 730 beds in primarily private rooms. The hospital will include a cardiovascular center, a neuroscience clinic, a urology unit, research space, and a medical school. The first phase will open in mid-2013 with full occupancy expected in March of 2014.

Torrance Memorial Medical Center is building a $300 million replacement tower in Torrance, Calif. Construction began on the facility in February of 2010 with completion expected in November of 2014. The project team includes HMC Architects and McCarthy Building Companies.

The 680,000-sf Virtua Voorhees Hospital opened in September of 2011 in Voorhees, N.J.  Providing 368 beds in private rooms, the $463 million facility was designed using Six Sigma and LEAN principles to promote optimal integration of workflow and patient care processes. Virtua Voorhees houses facilities for emergency care, ambulatory surgery, pediatrics, neuroscience, cardiology, oncology, women's services, and imaging.

The University of Texas Medical Branch is planning to build the $438 million Jennie Sealy Hospital in Galveston. The facility will provide a 50-bed ICU, 250 patient rooms, and advanced surgical suites. Occupancy is expected in early 2016.

The American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) of the American Hospital Association has published a monograph titled Operating Room HVAC Setback Strategies. The monograph, which is part of a series of publications that cover single topics in clinical/biomedical engineering, facility engineering, design and construction, and safety and security management, details how operating room HVAC setback strategies can save energy. An operating room (OR) setback strategy reduces energy use by curtailing the amount of air supplied to an OR when the room is not in use.

The $109 million Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center will open in September of 2011 in Gilbert, Ariz. The 133,000-sf outpatient facility will offer collaborative, integrated treatment for all types of cancers. The center will support 75 physicians. 

Sanford Health will break ground in 2013 on the $360 million Sanford Fargo Medical Center in North Dakota. The 11-story, 704,000-sf hospital will provide 371 private patient rooms in a facility that promotes maximum integration of research with clinical care. Sanford Fargo Medical Center will house 30 operating rooms, 10 cardiac catheterization labs, 40 emergency and trauma rooms, and 300 clinical exam rooms. Completion is expected in 2016.

Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAM HSC) has successfully implemented AssetWorks' AiM™ software solution. The implementation includes the systematic organization of design and construction digital data representing all the facility assets for TAM HSC. The AssetWorks Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system was implemented meeting or exceeding all target metrics of system performance, timing, and cost.

Methodist Hospital Research Institute will complete construction of a BSL-4 imaging suite in its Houston facility in August of 2011. The $8.6 million project was created in partnership with Philips Healthcare and will enable patients with highly infectious diseases to be imaged in a contained environment. The suite includes an MRI, a PET/CT scanner, and a SPECT/CT scanner. The equipment will be located in airtight compartments to prevent the spread of pathogens.

Saint Mary Mercy Hospital is building the $89 million South Pavilion in Livonia, Mich. The three-story, 154,000-sf project will house inpatient rooms, graduate medical education classrooms, a behavioral medicine treatment suite, imaging, a conference room, and a 45,000-sf emergency department with 55 treatment rooms. Occupancy is expected in October of 2012. The South Pavilion was designed by Hobbs + Black Architects and is being built by Granger Construction Company.

Kaiser Permanente broke ground in August of 2011 on a 280,000-sf hospital in Redwood City, Calif. The seven-story, 149-bed facility is being built by general contractor Rudolph and Sletten to meet and exceed state seismic regulations. Completion is expected in late 2014.