WYNNEWOOD, Pa. — The Lankenau Medical Center is celebrating the recent achievement of LEED Silver certification for the sustainable design and construction of the center’s Master Facility Project. The $446 million, 600,000-square-foot project is the first health project in the region to receive LEED Silver and is the largest health care project on the East Coast to earn the green distinction, according to hospital officials.
SAN FRANCISCO — A $100 million gift from Lynne and Marc Benioff will benefit the continuous development of the UC San Francisco (UCSF) Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland.
The donation will be used to strengthen existing programs in basic and clinical research and patient care as well as attract new expertise in order to accelerate the development of innovative solutions for children’s health in the Bay Area, nationally and globally, according to UCSF.
MINNEAPOLIS — The Hennepin County Medical Center will build a 322,000-square-foot expansion hospital officials announced this week. The $191 million expansion to the downtown Minneapolis health care campus will include primary care clinics, specialty clinics and outpatient surgery facilities.
HIRAM, Ga. – The new eight-story, 295,000-square-foot WellStar Paulding Hospital opened for patients April 1. With 56 beds and the ability to double its current capacity, the WellStar Paulding Hospital houses four state-of-the-art surgical suites, 40 emergency exam rooms, a dedicated pediatric emergency department and cardiac catheterization center.
The new hospital features several new technologies, such as UV Air Handlers and a water re-disinfectant system, that are focused on infection prevention.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — A $190 million patient care tower addition to the University Hospital in Columbia, Mo., has received LEED Gold certification. The eight-story replacement facility, which opened in March 2013, was designed by HOK, with offices in St. Louis, and constructed by JE Dunn Construction of Kansas City, Mo. It is the largest expansion ever for University of Missouri (MU) Health Care.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, N.H., and Griffin Hospital in Derby, Conn., were recently named the 2014 Legacy Project Award recipients at the International Summit & Exhibition on Health Facility Planning, Design & Construction in Orlando, Fla.
SAN DIEGO — The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is celebrating the completion of the new $113 million Health Sciences Biomedical Research Facility. Designed by the Portland, Ore., office of ZGF Architects and constructed by McCarthy Building Companies Inc, which holds local offices, the 196,000-square-foot building is aiming to achieve LEED Platinum certification.
LA JOLLA, Calif. — Scripps Memorial Hospital broke ground on a six-story, $130 million office building. Part of Scripps Health’s $2 billion renovation plan, the John R. Anderson V. Medical Pavilion will house several medical specialists including cardiologists, gastroenterologists, neurologists and endocrinologists.
FAIRFIELD, Calif. — At Monday’s opening of the new $20 million Green Valley Health Plaza, NorthBay Healthcare announced two major construction projects slated for the organization’s Fairfield and Vacaville campuses. The two new construction projects will total $180 million.
The 132-bed North Bay Medical Center in Fairfield, Calif., will undergo $140 million in upgrades and will receive a new three-story wing and lobby entrance. The VacaValley Hospital in Vacaville, Calif., will construct a $40 million, 105,000-square-foot office building.
COUER D’ALENE, Idaho — To keep up with a growing number of patients, Kootenai Health announced last week that it will expand its hospital with a $57 million, three-story addition and construct a new main hospital entryway.
The addition, which will break ground in either late summer or early fall, will increase patient beds by 10 percent and create much needed space. A recent facility assessment demonstrated a need for approximately 20 percent more space on the health care campus, according to Jon Ness, CEO of Kootenai Health.
