Inpatient Projects: $2B hospital plans gain OK in S.F.
Scaled-down, 274-bed Cathedral Hill facility planned; St. Luke’s to be rebuilt By Dan Emerson After five months of negotiations that led to a long-awaited compromise, California Pacific Medical Center recently gained city approval to go ahead with its planned $2 billion Cathedral Hill hospital and a related rebuild of St. Luke’s Hospital. Opposition by some […]
Inpatient Projects: 30-year-old Aspen, Colo., hospital gets city approval for final phases of expansion
ASPEN, Colo. – After several public meetings, Aspen Valley Hospital recently gained City Council approval for the final two phases of its expansion, which includes a two-story addition, an expanded basement, a new service road, a new entryway and an emergency room. These third and fourth phases of the hospital’s expansion would add 83,000 square […]
Inpatient Projects: Victory Healthcare breaks ground for 25-bed surgical hospital in Fort Worth
FORT WORTH, Texas – The Woodlands, Texas-based Victory Healthcare recently broke ground on an 85,000 square foot hospital and a 50,000 square foot MOB in Fort Worth. The future Victory Medical Center is being built on a 6.5-acre site at the corner of South Main Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.
Inpatient Projects: Fort Bliss to get $648 million, 1.1 million square foot replacement medical center
EL PASO, Texas – Construction is set to begin on the $648 million, 630,000 square foot William Beaumont Army Medical Center at Fort Bliss. The project will include a seven-story hospital, two clinic buildings, an administrative building, a biosafety-equipped, clinical investigation building, laboratories, and a central utility plant.
Inpatient Projects: Ground broken for New Sibley Memorial in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Construction began July 1 on what is being called the New Sibley Memorial Hospital. Essentially, the hospital campus is being rebuilt, with the recent groundbreaking marking the start of construction on a 469,000 square foot, 200-bed facility on the campus in northwest Washington. The hospital, owned by Johns Hopkins Medicine, will include […]
Inpatient Projects: $242M children’s hospital planned
Alleviating overcrowding a primary goal of building facility in Fort Myers, Fla. By John B. Mugford When beds periodically become scarce at the children’s hospital inside HealthPark Medical Center in Fort Myers, Fla., pediatric patients are sometimes diverted to hospitals in other cities. On occasion, the destinations include Tampa or Miami.
Inpatient Projects: Virginia Commonwealth University proposes a new children’s hospital in Norfolk
RICHMOND, Va. – Even though major details have yet to be worked out, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health System recently announced that it has proposed a new freestanding children’s hospital for the Richmond area. The proposal comes on the heels of a request by the university’s authority board to look into the building of a […]
Inpatient Projects: Arizona hospital joins RegionalCare; plans underway for replacement
SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. – Now that Sierra Vista Regional Health Center has joined Nashville, Tenn.-based RegionalCare Hospital Partners Inc., officials say planning has begun in earnest for a new 100-bed replacement hospital in this city of about 50,000 people in the far southeast corner of Arizona. The Sierra Vista-based health center recently signed on to […]
Companies & People: Brasfield & Gorrie wins contract for large project at Medical City in Dallas
DALLAS – Birmingham, Ala.-based construction firm Brasfield & Gorrie was recently awarded the contract for a vertical expansion and renovation project at the 530-bed Medical City Hospital in Dallas. The project would consist of building
Inpatient Projects: Sharp Hospital near San Diego to undergo upgrades over 20 years
CHULA VISTA, Calif. – A new master plan is in place for a multi-phase expansion and upgrading of facilities at San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare’s hospital campus in Chula Vista. Plans call for projects to take place in five phases at the Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center campus during the next 20 years.
Industry Pulse: VA hospitals plagued by delays, cost overruns
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is providing plenty of construction jobs and perhaps boosting local economies while building a number of new hospitals around the country. Four of the most visible projects, which have projected price tags in the hundreds of millions of dollars each, are in
Industry Pulse: Forecast uncertain for Sandy-battered hospital
The last hospital to remain closed as a result of the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 remains, well, unopened. And according to the latest reports, it might never open as a hospital again.
Inpatient Projects: Stanford Hospital finally underway
New facility will be built next to current hospital, upping capacity to 600 beds By John B. Mugford Work has finally started on the hospital expansion at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. After the project’s approval was delayed several times, a joint venture of Clark Construction Group-California LP and McCarthy Building Cos. Inc., called […]
Inpatient Projects: Memorial Hermann plans hospital at its campus in Pearland, Texas
PEARLAND, Texas – As the Houston suburb of Pearland continues to boom, Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System is looking for more ways to capture market share in the city. The Houston-based health system recently announced a plan to help it do just that: an expansion of its current outpatient campus in Pearland with the building […]
News Release: Stanford Breaks Ground on New Hospital
STANFORD, CALIF., MAY 2, 2013 – Clark/McCarthy, a joint venture of McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. and Clark Construction Group – California, LP, celebrated the groundbreaking of the new Stanford Hospital yesterday. The new facility will dramatically enhance capacity, while allowing Stanford Hospital to accommodate new medical technology, meet updated seismic-safety requirements and transform patient care. […]
