Oct/Nov Building Briefs

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NORTHEAST

 

After three years of planning, project plans were unveiled for a 19,000-square-foot expansion project at Gettysburg Hospital in York, Pa. Construction is underway on the new emergency department which will feature 18 private treatment rooms and new patient amenities that include a vending area, café seating, pediatric waiting area and more patient and visitor restrooms. The addition will cost WellSpan Health $18.1 million. Project completion is slated for Aug. 2012, but the new addition is expected to allow for patient visits beginning Feb. 2012.

 

MID-ATLANTIC
 

A groundbreaking ceremony occurred for a new medical office building in Ranson, W.Va. The 7,200-square-foot facility will be located on South Preston Street, directly across from West Virginia University Hospitals-East’s Jefferson Memorial Hospital’s main entrance. The facility will house 16 to 18 exam rooms, and two existing medical practices, WVU Maternity and Women’s Health Center and University Medical and Surgical Associates. These practices currently house six physicians and a midwife, in their existing facilities, and conduct approximately 9,000 patient visits each year. The new facility will be more expansive and will allow the potential for three to four additional physicians. This would enable the amount of patient visits to possibly double within several years. The roughly $1.5 million project is expected to be completed in March. Howard Shockey & Sons is the general contractor.

 

MIDWEST
 

Groundbreaking is scheduled for Nov. 1 for the $4 million expansion project at Lake Health’s Madison Campus in Madison, Ohio. The hospital is located at Lake Health’s Urgent Care Center, at 6270 North Ridge Road in Madison Township, which opened in 1998 with 20,375 square feet. It mainly serves its surrounding community and Madison Village. Hospital officials went before the township Zoning Commission with their plans this summer, which include private emergency rooms, doctors’ offices, exam rooms and electronic medical records. In addition, the hospital will add on 6,000 square feet for its helicopter landing site.

 

 

Officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs announced an award of a contract worth $1.3 million to Colorado builders Kiewit-Turner to provide preconstruction services for the Denver VA Medical Center replacement hospital in Aurora, Colo. The $800 million hospital will be on the same campus as the University Of Colorado Hospital, site of the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center. Kiewit-Turner will assist VA and the architect/engineer team in the design of a new 1.1 million square-foot, 206-bed tertiary care medical center. Plans include a new 120-bed inpatient bed-tower with a 30-bed spinal cord injury unit, and a 30-bed nursing home community living center. The hospital, scheduled for completion in 2014, will have expanded telehealth, polytrauma, and traumatic brain injury programs.

 

 

A 500,000-square-foot hospital will be built at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, Calif., and the joint venture of Clark Construction Group Inc. and McCarthy Building Companies Inc., have won the $451 million bid to do so. The location of the facility will be less than a mile from the Marine Corps base’s Oceanside gate, on Vandegrift Avenue across from the commissary. The existing hospital near the camp’s Lake O’Neal houses 72 inpatient beds. The new hospital will include no more than 67 beds, but will be about 40,000 square feet larger. The project, designed by HDR in Pasadena, will also include a 1,500-space parking garage, surface parking, emergency care, primary care, clinics and other various departments. The project was included in the Pentagon’s $7.4 billion segment of the $787 billion economic stimulus package passed by Congress last year. It was also the military’s top priority in medical construction and is needed in order for the military to upgrade its facilities to meet California’s seismic safety standards. These standards were adopted following the 1994 Northridge earthquake that caused $3 billion in damages to 23 hospitals. The project was originally budgeted at $563 million; however, the favorable bidding climate reduced the price to $394 million. This climate also made it possible to add in $57 million for furnishings, fixtures and equipment, additional parking and conservation bank credits that other developers can purchase to mitigate environmental impacts on their projects. Construction of the new hospital is expected to bring in as many as 1,000 workers to the 70-acre site, providing a large economic stimulus for the area. Project completion is expected in four years.