Inpatient Projects: Parkridge Health System plans major expansion at Chattanooga, Tenn., hospital
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Officials at Parkridge Health System recently announced that the organization is planning a $62 million expansion of the five-story, 275-bed hospital in downtown Chattanooga. Jim Coleman, Parkridge Health System’s chief operating officer, noted in a statement that, “This is easily the biggest expansion at our downtown campus in the past 20 years. […]
Inpatient Projects: Banner Health is opening new $86 million hospital in Fort Collins, Colo.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Phoenix-based Banner Health, one of the largest healthcare systems in the country, is opening an $86 million, 146,000 square foot, 22-bed hospital in Fort Collins. The growing city has never had two hospitals, as Poudre Valley Hospital has been the town’s only acute-care facility for 90 years.
Inpatient Projects: Stanford Health holds ‘topping out’ for new hospital in Palo Alto, Calif.
PALO ALTO, Calif. – Stanford Health Care recently celebrated a major milestone in the construction of its future $2 billion hospital with a ceremonial “topping out” of the massive structure.
Inpatient Projects: $280M project wrapping up in Cincy
Christ Hospital in Mount Auburn area getting new 90-bed Spine and Joint Center By John B. Mugford A three-year, $280 million transformation project at the Christ Hospital campus in the Mt. Auburn section of Cincinnati is nearing completion. The centerpiece of the project is the new Joint and Spine Center, a 90-bed, 355,000 square foot […]
Inpatient Projects: Debate continues: Outpatient versus inpatient facility in San Clemente, Calif.
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. – As the country’s healthcare system continues to shift toward an outpatient delivery model, perhaps one thing is being forgotten: the wishes of residents in favor of retaining their local hospitals.
Inpatient Projects: $339M pavilion started in Bay Area
Washington Hospital in Freemont, Calif., adding three-story, 223,000 s.f. facility By Connie M. McCaffrey With 150 beds, a sparkling new hospital opened in the small Bay Area community of Freemont, Calif., in 1958 to serve a local population of about 18,000 people. Nearly a half century later, the 341-bed Washington Hospital serves an area just […]
Inpatient Projects: $75 million replacement facility to replace hospital in Great Smoky Mountains
CHEROKEE, N.C. – Work has been underway for nearly a year now on a replacement for Cherokee Indian Hospital in Cherokee, a city in the Great Smoky Mountains about 50 miles west of Asheville.
Inpatient Projects: $71 million expansion underway at hospital in Carrollwood, Fla.
CARROLLWOOD, Fla. – A $71 million expansion totaling 116,866 square feet has just begun at the 120-bed Florida Hospital Carrollwood, about 11 miles northwest of Tampa. Hospital officials said the expansion will include
Inpatient Projects: Andrews Hospital completes first phase of construction
ANDREWS, Texas – Community leaders and officials at Permian Regional Medical Center in Andrews recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of the first phase of construction on a new, replacement hospital. Phase one entails a new health and wellness center and a doctors’ clinic. Andrews, home to about 13,000 residents, is […]
Inpatient Projects: Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kan., to build $28M children’s hospital
WICHITA, Kan. – Officials at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita recently announced a renovation project for the hospital’s inpatient pediatric areas with the building of a new $28 million children’s hospital on its main campus. The project will include
Inpatient Projects: St. Elizabeth’s Hospital petitions state board to move to O’Fallon, Ill.
BELLEVILLE, Ill. – Officials at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital are again asking the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board for permission to close its 303-bed hospital in Belleville in order to open a replacement hospital about eight miles away in O’Fallon, Ill. The cost of the project would be $300 million, which would include building […]
Inpatient Projects: Work begins on new $35M Boone Memorial Hospital in West Virginia
MADISON, W. Va. — After a 12-year effort, construction started in recent months on a new $35 million replacement for Boone Memorial Hospital in Madison, W. Va., a town of about 3,000 people 30 or so miles south of Charleston, W. Va. The new hospital will replace the current 25-bed Boone Memorial Hospital, a Critical […]
Inpatient Projects: $1.5 billion UCSF hospital opens
Mission Bay campus focusses on women, children, cancer; tech playing a big role By John B. Mugford The new $1.5 billion University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center at Mission Bay is now up and running, and it’s getting plenty of help and heavy lifting from some non-humans working on the campus.
Inpatient Projects: Carolinas Health still fighting Piedmont’s CON for South Carolina hospital
FORT MILL, S.C. – Even with a recent approval in hand from an administrative law court, Rock Hill, S.C.-based Piedmont Medical Center might not be starting construction as soon as it would like on its planned $147 million hospital in Fort Mill, about 20 miles south of Charlotte, N.C. That’s because Charlotte-based Carolinas HealthCare system […]
Inpatient Projects: More Inpatient Real Estate Project News
■ The University of Iowa is in the process of raising funds for a new $292 million, 480,000 square foot pediatric hospital. The 14-story building will be connected to the existing hospital in Iowa City. The university is funding the project through bonds, patient revenue and private gifts. The project is expected to be completed […]