Inpatient Projects: While waiting for CON, Lee County, Fla. system seeks local approval
BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. – While awaiting a possible approval for a new hospital from an administrative law judge, Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Memorial Health System is moving forward with zoning applications for an acute care facility it has planned for Bonita Springs. Last year, the health system, which operates four hospitals in Lee County, had […]
Inpatient Projects: Contested Illinois hospital underway
Despite a pending appeal, Centegra Health moves forward on $233M project By John B. Mugford Even though an appeal from competitors is still pending, a health system in the far northwestern suburbs of Chicago has decided to start preliminary construction on its long-planned $233 million hospital in the growing city of Huntley. Confident that the […]
Inpatient Projects: Texas hospital to undergo major expansion
Methodist Hospital in San Antonio is ready to embark on $200 million-plus plan By John B. Mugford Methodist Hospital in San Antonio is ready to embark on the largest construction project in its history, an expansion that will increase the footprint of its campus by 445,162 square feet. Cost for the expansion will exceed $200 […]
Inpatient Projects: Marin County voters provide slim approval for new replacement
MARIN COUNTY, Calif. – It looks as if, by the slimmest of margins, voters in Marin County have passed a $394 million general obligation bond measure to rebuild the 61-year-old Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, about 15 miles north of San Francisco. In order to gain approval, the measure needed to garner two-thirds of the […]
Inpatient Projects: Virginia replacement reduces beds
Riverside Health’s future hospital on Eastern Shore expected to cost about $80M FORT WORTH, Texas – Officials with HCA North Texas recently broke ground on a $71 million future hospital and an adjoining MOB in an area known as Alliance in north Fort Worth, a marketplace that has become highly competitive among healthcare providers. Both […]
Inpatient Projects: Despite court delay, Centegra still planning $233M Illinois hospital
HUNTLEY, Ill. – A late-October groundbreaking planned for a new hospital in Huntley has been postponed, perhaps until December, due to an ongoing court battle concerning the project’s certificate of need (CON) approval from the state. Despite the setback, officials with Crystal Lake, Ill.-based Centegra Health System say they are confident that a judge will […]
Inpatient Projects:HCA breaks ground in competitive healthcare market north of Fort Worth, Texas
FORT WORTH, Texas – Officials with HCA North Texas recently broke ground on a $71 million future hospital and an adjoining MOB in an area known as Alliance in north Fort Worth, a marketplace that has become highly competitive among healthcare providers. Both the hospital, called
Inpatient Projects: Pomona, Calif., rehab provider finishes MOB, starts $45M hospital wing
POMONA, Calif. – Just as Casa Colina Centers for Rehabilitation was completing a new outpatient facility on its 20-acre campus in Pomona, it started construction on a $45 million wing of its adjacent hospital structure. Pomona is in the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles.
Inpatient Projects: More Inpatient Project News
■ Officials with a future 100-bed replacement hospital in Braselton, Ga., recently celebrated the “topping out” of construction, otherwise described as the placement of the final steel beam of the framework.
Inpatient Projects: More Inpatient Project News
■ Officials with a future 100-bed replacement hospital in Braselton, Ga., recently celebrated the “topping out” of construction, otherwise described as the placement of the final steel beam of the framework. The new hospital,
Inpatient Projects: OSHPD approves $300M care center
State agency approves Washington Hospital’s plan for 250,000 s.f. facility in Fremont, Calif. By John B. Mugford This fall, Washington Hospital in Freemont, Calif., aims to start construction on its long-planned, $300 million Morris Hyman Critical Care Pavilion and a seven-story, 680-space parking garage. The plan recently received the approval of the California Office […]
Inpatient Projects: New owner, Duke/LifePoint, plans $290M replacement for Marquette General
MARQUETTE, Mich. – When Duke/LifePoint (DLP) Healthcare LLC announced the formation of a joint venture (JV) partnership in early 2011, it outlined a strategy for acquiring, helping operate and investing capital into smaller, perhaps standalone and/or struggling community or regional hospitals. So far, the partnership of Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System Inc. and Brentwood, […]
Inpatient Projects: Landlocked, Colo., rehab hospital starts $90M expansion, renovation
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – A $90 million expansion and renovation is underway on the tight confines of Craig Hospital’s landlocked campus in Englewood, a Denver suburb. The hospital focuses on the rehabilitation and research of patients with spinal cord injuries (SCI) and traumatic brain injuries (TBI). The 60-month project calls for adding
Inpatient Projects: UNC Hospitals tops off future $200 million Hillsborough facility
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. – In July, Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health Care opened the first phase of its new Hillsborough hospital campus: the 60,000 square foot Hillsborough Medical Office Building. Specialties housed in the new facility include dermatology, gastrointestinal medicine, OB/GYN, urogynecology and urology, along with a skin cancer center.
Inpatient Projects:More Inpatient Project News
■ Construction is underway on a $315 million expansion of Riverside (Calif.) Community Hospital, which recently displayed architectural drawings and shared details of the project at a public town hall meeting. The expansion includes
