Building Briefs

NORTHEAST

 

Construction is under way on a $19.6 million renovation at St. Anne’s Hospital in Fall River, Mass. The project includes a 17,000-square-foot emergency department that will accommodate new technology and double the hospital’s capacity for emergency patients. The emergency department will include 27 treatment bays, two trauma/cardiac treatment areas, a dedicated pediatric care area, areas designated for gynecology and isolation, and an expanded ambulance area. A centrally located nurses station will provide continuous visibility of patients.

 

Construction started on an $11 million, 46,000-square-foot project at Pease International Tradeport in Portsmouth, N.H. The full-service inpatient rehabilitation hospital will house 33 beds. North Branch, one of the largest New Hampshire construction firms, is the general contractor for the two-story hospital. JSA, Inc. of Portsmouth is the project’s architect. The hospital is scheduled to open in spring 2011 and is expected to employ about 100 people. Expectations are that the new facility will serve the acute rehabilitation needs of the coastal areas of New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts.

 

 

MID-ATLANTIC

 

Officials from Centra Ambulatory Surgery LLC requested a certificate of public need from the Virginia Commissioner of Health for a proposed new medical facility in Danville, Va. The 27,000-square-foot outpatient surgical hospital will have two operating rooms, a 24-hour emergency room, and an imaging center. Centra is expected to spend about $6.6 million to build the facility.

 

 

SOUTHEAST

 

Construction of the $130 million Bethesda West Hospital in Boynton Beach, Fla., is under way. Palm Beach County’s newest hospital is scheduled to open by January 2013. Phase one of the project calls for a 210,000-square-foot hospital with five stories and 80 beds. The project also calls for a separate medical office building that would open in 2012. The new hospital will include a 24-hour emergency department with 18 treatment rooms, 10 critical/intensive care rooms and a full range of imaging services including MRI, CT, general radiography, ultrasound, mammography and cardiac stress testing. A $130 million tax-exempt bond will fund the majority of construction costs

 

 

MIDWEST

 

The Missouri Department of Economic Development recently allocated $16.5 million in private activity bonds to be issued to SSM Health Care Corp. of St. Louis. The funds are part of a $581 million bond issue to construct, renovate, and acquire new properties for the SSMHC system. The private activity bonds will fund a number of capital improvement projects, including projects at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis, St. Clare Health Center in Fenton, St. Joseph Health Center in St. Charles, St. Joseph Hospital West in Lake St.

 

 

SOUTH CENTRAL

 

Officials announced that HKS Architects will lead design efforts for the conversion of King’s Daughters Hospital into a regional children’s hospital in Temple, Texas. Renovations are scheduled to begin in September 2010 and officials anticipate the project will be completed by late summer or early fall 2011. The new children’s hospital will feature comprehensive medical and surgical pediatric services. It will be supported by 48 private pediatric inpatient rooms, 16 private pediatric intensive care rooms, newly renovated surgical suites, and a new 12-bed pediatric emergency department.

 

 

ROCKY MOUNTAINS

 

Kaiser Permanente announced plans to open a new large-scale, multi-specialty medical office complex in Douglas County, Colo. Work on the planned 200,000-square-foot medical building will be completed in phases, with construction scheduled for late 2011 and completion planned for 2013. Contact Kaiser Permanente Administration Department, (510) 271-5800.

 

 

PACIFIC

 

CONSTRUCTION

 

Construction of a new $4.5 million Eden Medical Center is under way in Richland, Wash., at the Port of Kennewick’s Spaulding Business Park. The 35,000-square-foot, four-story center will be equipped with state-of-the-art medical labs and will provide specialty outpatient services. In addition, the center will feature an imaging center and physician assistant and medical assistant programs. Eden Medical Center will serve as ancillary support for hospitals in the surrounding area.