Inpatient Projects: Kaiser opens new flagship hospital
New $1.3 billion Oakland Medical Center replaces system’s original facility By John B. Mugford For more than 70 years, the Kaiser Permanente healthcare system and insurance provider has been delivering care at its longtime flagship hospital at Broadway and MacArthur Boulevard, just blocks outside of downtown Oakland, Calif. Even though the old Oakland Medical Center […]
Inpatient Projects: Hospital plans $300M replacement
St. Elizabeth’s to relocate to 114-acre campus in O’Fallon, Ill., east of St. Louis By John B. Mugford After 60 years of operating a hospital in the heart of Belleville, Ill., just outside of St. Louis, officials with St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and Hospital Sisters Health System recently announced plans for a replacement facility they say […]
Inpatient Projects: Baptist enters new turf in Arkansas, breaking ground on $130M hospital
CONWAY, Ark. – Even though officials with the only existing hospital in Conway contend that there is no need for more inpatient beds in the city, Little Rock, Ark.-based Baptist Health recently broke ground for a new acute care facility on the outskirts of town. Baptist Health officials were joined by Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe, […]
Inpatient Projects: Ovieda, Fla., to get its first hospital, which is to be built at site of FED
OVIEDO, Fla. – A fairly common strategy being employed by health systems looking to enter new markets involves developing new freestanding emergency departments (FEDs) in anticipation of someday building new hospitals at the same sites. Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford, Fla., which is part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HCA), is using […]
Inpatient Projects: Hospital in Dubuque, Iowa, to get $42 million, three-story inpatient expansion
DUBUQUE, Iowa – Officials with UnityPoint Health–Finley Hospital recently announced plans for an expansion designed to consolidate and enhance the hospital’s heart care, surgery and emergency capabilities. The proposed 70,000 square foot, three-story expansion would be constructed on the northwest side of the hospital, near Grandview Avenue in the heart of Dubuque, a city that […]
Inpatient Projects: Bend, Ore., hospital to start $22 million renovation of 5-story tower in the fall
BEND, Ore. – St. Charles Health System officials recently announced that they expect to start a $22 million renovation at St. Charles Bend this fall, remodeling most of the hospital’s five-story patient and nursing areas. Funding for the project would come from $75 million in bond sales that the hospital secured earlier this year in […]
Inpatient Projects: Stamford (Conn.) Hospital starts work on $450 million replacement facility
STAMFORD, Conn. – Construction of the new replacement $450 million, 600,000 square foot Stamford Hospital — the largest construction project in the hospital’s 117-year history — is underway.
Inpatient Projects: Dispute between VA and contractor adds to delay of Colorado project
AURORA, Colo. – A project aimed at helping veterans garner healthcare services in the Denver area recently had its day in federal court. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital construction project in Aurora has been plagued with delays because of design changes, cost overruns and a heated dispute with construction company Kiewet-Turner.
Inpatient Projects: St. Vincent’s to add beds as demand increases at Jacksonville hospital
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The parent company of St. Vincent’s Medical Center of Clay County has agreed to provide the initial seed capital required for a $24 million renovation of the hospital, according to a story in the Jacksonville Business Journal.
Inpatient Projects: More big plans unveiled in Houston
Latest announcement lifts local providers’ planned investment to $2 billion-plus By Connie M. McCaffrey Houston healthcare providers have announced about $2 billion in new projects in recent months. Houston Methodist last month raised the ante with another ambitious plan. On May 29, Methodist announced plans for a new $328 million, 470,000 square foot hospital campus […]
Inpatient Projects: $120 million, 5-story, 200,000 s.f. tower underway at hospital in Honolulu
HONOLULU – Work has started on a new $120 million, 200,000 square foot hospital tower at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu that will also house space to train a new generation of healthcare professionals.
Inpatient Projects: Riverside, Calif., hospital gains go ahead for 200 beds as part of $315M expansion
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Riverside Community Hospital will add more than 200 beds, build two new towers, add parking and renovate old buildings over the next 30 years, under a plan recently approved by the Riverside City Council.
Inpatient Projects: Methodist Hospital project leads Omaha healthcare construction boom
OMAHA, Neb. – Construction is underway on a $90 million expansion of the surgery department at Methodist Hospital at 8303 Dodge St. in Omaha. The project will relocate cardiac services into one large area and expand the surgery department into space vacated by obstetrical and gynecological services, which relocated to Methodist Women’s Hospital in Omaha. […]
Inpatient Projects: OhioHealth adds $91 million to investment in MedCentral Hospitals in wake of merger
COLUMBUS, Ohio – OhioHealth, a Columbus, Ohio-based family of not-for-profit, faith-based hospitals, announced that it will invest an additional $91 million over its earlier announced investment for capital improvements to two hospitals — OhioHealth MedCentral Mansfield in Mansfield, Ohio, and OhioHealth MedCentral Shelby in Shelby, Ohio. OhioHealth and the MedCentral Health system merged in March, […]
Inpatient Projects: Methodist Health to build $118 million patient tower in Mansfield, Texas
MANSFIELD, Texas – Methodist Health System recently broke ground on a $118 million, 110,000 square foot patient tower that will be connected to the Methodist Mansfield Medical Center at 2700 E. Broad St. in Mansfield, Texas, about 33 miles southwest of Dallas. Levi Davis, chairman of the Methodist Health System board of directors, said the […]
