Healthcare

Health Alliance opened the $116 million West Chester Medical Center in July of 2009 in West Chester Township, Ohio. Construction began on the 385,000-sf, 162-bed facility in July of 2006. Comprised of a five-story acute care hospital and a medical office complex, the project was designed by RTKL and built by Mortenson-Messer Healthcare Construction. The project team also included MEP engineer Fosdick & Hilmer and landscape architect Vivian Llambi & Associates.

Saratoga Hospital opened the $30 million, 33,000-sf Alfred Z. Solomon Emergency Center in Saratoga Springs in July of 2009. The renovated and expanded two-story ER features 36 private treatment rooms, an imaging suite, and new nursing stations. A second phase of construction is ongoing and will include a new lobby, waiting room, and observation unit. The Alfred Z. Solomon Emergency Center will accommodate 50,000 patient visits annually.

Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit opened a $32 million expansion of its intensive care unit in July of 2009. Housing 156 beds, the two-story addition is located on top of the hospital’s west pavilion. The expansion features 80 private rooms, surgical suites, and cardiothoracic intensive care facilities.

Sutter Healthcare officially broke ground on the $320 million Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, Calif., in July of 2009. Housing 130 private inpatient beds, the 230,000-sf, seven-story hospital will include emergency, trauma, neuroscience, and maternity facilities. A 34-bed universal care unit will provide acute care, lab services, pre- and post-surgery care, radiation therapy, and cardiology services. An adjacent 80,000-sf, four-story medical office building will also be constructed at the site.

Oakland University is planning to build the $62 million Human Health Building in Rochester, Mich. Housing the departments of nursing and health sciences, the five-story, 160,000-sf facility is slated for completion in 2012. The Human Health Building will include classrooms, seminar rooms, an interactive media center, physical therapy clinics, simulation labs, clinical labs, computer labs, and distance learning facilities. The project architect is SmithGroup of Detroit.

Robinson Memorial Hospital completed the $21 million Robinson Health Center in Streetsboro, Ohio, in July of 2009. The 75,000-sf outpatient facility will house medical offices, MRI, CT, and X-ray imaging, and an urgent care center. General contractor RMH Construction began work on the three-story building in April of 2008. The Robinson Health Center will accommodate approximately 100,000 patient visits annually.

William Carey University is building the College of Osteopathic Medicine in Hattiesburg, Miss. Slated for occupancy in fall of 2010, the first phase is comprised of a 46,000-sf facility housing classrooms and laboratories. The second and third phases will reach completion in 2014 providing teaching amphitheaters, conference rooms, and administrative offices. The total construction cost for the project is $11 million.

Winter Park Urology Group completed an expansion of its healthcare and research complex in Winter Park, Fla., in June of 2009. The design-build project was built by Turner Special Projects with VOA Partners as design architect. The first phase of the project involved design and construction of a new two-story, 19,100-sf facility housing 14 physician offices, 16 exam rooms, a research coordination center, two research conference rooms, and a state-of-the-art medical records center.

Mercy Health Partners is planning to build a $200 million hospital on a 60-acre site in Green Township, Ohio. Slated for occupancy in early 2014, the facility will accommodate between 200 and 250 beds. The new hospital will replace two of Mercy’s existing hospitals, which will be closed.

Baystate Medical Center is building a $246 million hospital in Springfield, Ma. The 600,000-sf project broke ground in summer of 2008 and is slated for completion in 2012.

The Burnham Institute for Medical Research has consolidated three Orlando offices in a new 175,000-sf, $85 million research facility designed to study diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. Medical City is a 600-acre science and technology park within Windermere, Fla.-based Tavistock Group’s Lake Nona mixed-use master-planned community.

Thanks to the slowdown in the construction industry, the new Health Sciences Building at Palomar College is expected to come in under the anticipated $10 million price tag originally estimated for the two-story, 25,000-sf facility. Nursing and dental programs will be consolidated in the new building, which will house labs, both specialized classrooms and five general-use classrooms, and simulator rooms equipped with instructor-controlled mannequins. Completion of construction is expected in June 2010.

Construction has finished at Temple University’s new $160 million state-of-the-art School of Medicine building. Ballinger of Philadelphia designed the 11-story, 480,000-sf facility to provide 100,000 sf for medical education,  160,000 sf for patient care research, and 249,000 sf of dedicated educational laboratories and research space.  The emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration is exemplified by the Health Sciences Center library, cominbining the fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, and the related health professions.

The Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), opened at the university’s biomedical research and education Mission Bay campus. The 163,865-gsf, five-story building was designed by Rafael Vinoly and is exclusively dedicated to cancer research, treatment, and prevention. Translational research into cancer’s basic biological mechanisms, brain tumors, urologic oncology, pediatric oncology, cancer population sciences, and computational biology will all be housed at the new facility.

$2 billion from Canada's federal government is being targeted at creating a Knowledge Infrastructure Program to support health care, research, and education.