Inpatient Projects

News Release: McCarthy Coompletes Design-Build Master Plan for Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center

SAN DIEGO – (April 30, 2013) – Utilizing a unique design-build approach, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., in concert with the Cuningham Group (formerly NTD Healthcare), has completed the master plan for the Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, located at 751 Medical Center Court in Chula Vista, Calif.  Performed on behalf of Sharp HealthCare, the master […]

Industry Pulse: $2 billion project being reviewed in San Francisco

California Pacific Medical Center’s titanic building program looks to be back on course after the health system and its parent company, Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health, reached a compromise with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. After months of contentious negotiations, the compromise calls for CPMC to move forward with a scaled-down version – at 274 […]

Companies & People: Gresham Smith completes projects in Greensboro, N.C. and Charlottesville, Va.

KATY, Texas –  Gresham Smith and Partners (GS&P), a design and consulting firm, recently completed two projects in the eastern part of the country. On one of the projects, the Nashville, Tenn.-based firm provided architecture, interior design and planning services for a new 44,000 square foot outpatient care center for

Inpatient Projects: Large Dallas hospital to get even larger with $114M project

DALLAS­ – Medical City Dallas Hospital and Medical City Children’s Hospital, which are on the same campus and are both part of HCA North Texas, is in the midst of planning for a $114 expansion. The project would entail adding four new floors on top of the hospital’s E Tower and renovating existing space in […]

Inpatient Projects: Year-old hospital near Dayton keeps growing, adding more beds

BEAVERCREEK, Ohio ­– At a time when the country’s healthcare system is seeing a declining demand for beds, the newest hospital in the Dayton, Ohio, area is experiencing just the opposite. In order to keep up with demand, the Indu and Raj Soin Medical Center in Beavercreek, which opened as a $135 million, 90-bed hospital […]

Inpatient Projects: Saint Thomas in Nashville embarking on $110M, 4-year capital project

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville has broken ground on a four-year, $110 million modernization project that, according to CEO Dawn Rudolph, will make the facility “better, not bigger.” The project will require renovation of existing space and construction of a new 155,000 square foot inpatient tower to serve as its new “front […]

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray says he wants to remodel or rebuild United Medical Center (UMC) into a “modern” facility with a private firm running the operations. His proposed 2014 budget includes $20 million for capital improvements. (Photo courtesy of Burdette Koehler Murphy & Associates)

Inpatient Projects: D.C. mayor calls for new strategy

City-owned hospital would be modernized, run by third-party operator By John B. Mugford Instead of selling the financially troubled United Medical Center in Washington, as a recent plan had called for, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray recently announced that he would like to see the city remodel or rebuild the hospital into a “modern” facility that […]

Inpatient Projects: More Inpatient Project News

Dignity Health recently started construction on its future 24-bed, $44 million hospital in Glendale, Ariz. The new hospital, to be called St. Joseph’s Westgate Medical Center, is under way on a 35-acre tract near Loop 101 and Glendale Avenue, in the West Valley area of Greater Phoenix. The hospital is scheduled to open in early […]

Inpatient Projects: Finally, downscaled Shriners moving forward in St. Louis

ST. LOUIS – After years of setbacks, Shriners Hospital for Children in St. Louis has a date set for a groundbreaking for a new replacement hospital: March 20.  The $47 million replacement facility will be constructed at 4400 Clayton Ave. on the campus of the Washington University School of Medicine on the large campus of […]

Inpatient Projects: Work beings for $55 million Permian Regional Medical Center in Andrews, Texas

ANDREWS, Texas – Work started in recent weeks on a new replacement for Permian Regional Medical Center (PRMC) in Andrews. The future $55 million hospital will have 34 beds, a wellness center and physician clinic space and offices.  The 200,000 square foot facility, which will be built in phases and completed in 2016, will be […]

A replacement for St. Anthony Hospital is slated to anchor the proposed $430 million, nearly 1 million square foot Focal Point mixed-use community on about 11 acres of land, about four miles southwest of the Chicago Loop
Rendering courtesy of HDR Architects

Inpatient Projects: Commercial spaces to pay for hospital

 By Dan Emerson Like many aging hospitals throughout the country, century-old St. Anthony in Chicago has plans for a new replacement campus a short distance from its existing facility outside of downtown. Yet, what St. Anthony Ministries, the holding company that owns the hospital, has planned is, perhaps, unlike any medical complex/planned community in the […]

Cover Story: ‘This is what change looks like'

Cover Story: ‘This is what change looks like’

Like it or not, healthcare real estate changed dramatically in the past 10 years. Here are our picks for the top 10 stories. By Murray W. Wolf As part of our look back at our first 10 years of publishing Healthcare Real Estate Insights™, we knew we wanted to include an article naming the top […]

Construction is slated to start this summer on the future 126-bed, 362,000 square foot Regional Medical Center replacement hospital in Easton, Md. (Rendering courtesy of Shore Health System)

Inpatient Projects: Shore Health plans 126-bed replacement

S ystems hopes to break ground this summer for hospital costing at least $242M By John B. Mugford The city of Easton, Md., is home to a 100-year-old hospital, the venerable Shore Health System’s Memorial Hospital. Needless to say, healthcare has changed plenty during the last century, prompting the health system, which became part of […]

Manhattan’s skyline is slated to gain a nice addition: a 21-story outpatient facility (center) for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Connected to it would be the 16-story Hunter College Science and Health Professions Center. (Rendering courtesy of Memorial Sloan-Kettering)

Outpatient Projects: Huge cancer center planned for NYC

Former city-owned site will be home to 21-story, 750,000 square foot facility By John B. Mugford In the heart of perhaps the world’s most costly real estate market – Manhattan – building a new outpatient healthcare facility can be quite an undertaking, and an expensive one at that. If you’re going to build something, you […]

Optimal Outcomes recently completed this 36,000 square foot building in Tampa, Fla., for Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute.
Photo courtesy of Optimal Outcomes

Companies: Developer finishes third cancer center

OPTIMAL OUTCOMES OPENS 36,000 FACILITY IN TAMPA, FLA., FOR GROWING GROUP By John Mugford For St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Optimal Outcomes LLC, developing comprehensive cancers centers has become a strong niche among the services it offers. In fact, the healthcare development firm recently completed a new 36,000 square foot, $9.5 million cancer center in Tampa, Fla., […]