Inpatient Projects: NorthBay announces big upgrades
Healthcare system will invest $200 million on Solano County, Calif., facilities By Connie M. McCaffrey NorthBay Healthcare , an independent Fairfield, Calif.-based health system, announced that in addition to its newly opened $20 million Green Valley Health Plaza in Fairfield, it plans to begin major construction on its two hospital campuses in Fairfield and Vacaville, […]
Inpatient Projects: Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia plans $80 million facilities expansion in Fargo, N.D.
FARGO, N.D. – Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health announced that it is planning $80 million in additions to its medical facilities in Fargo during the next three years. The biggest expansion is a 105,000 square foot, $50 million addition to its 105-bed Fargo South Tower.
Inpatient Projects: Medical University Hospital Authority plans new facility in Charleston, S.C.
CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Medical University Hospital Authority recently reviewed potential architectural and engineering firms that are bidding to help build the new $250 million to $300 million Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Children’s Hospital and Women’s Pavilion. The new facility, which will be built on the former Charleston Memorial Hospital campus at 171 […]
Inpatient Projects: Northwestern Lake Forest files plans for $378 million replacement hospital
LAKE FOREST, Ill. – Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, a wholly owned entity of Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, has applied for a permit to build a $378 million, 470,000 square foot replacement hospital on its current campus at 660 N. Westmoreland Road in Lake Forest. The hospital recently won state approval to design the new hospital […]
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NortonHealthcare announced that despite inclement winter weather, renovations on Norton Suburban Hospital’s East Tower on Dutchman’s Lane in Louisville, Ky., are expected to be completed this summer. Louisville-based Norton is investing $51 million to add three stories on top of its current two-story ED. The health system also will spend about $38.7 million on other […]
Inpatient Projects: Ventura County approves bonds for $307 million medical center expansion
VENTURA, Calif. – The Ventura County Board of Supervisors last month approved the largest bond issue in the county’s history, with the bulk of the $360 million in bond proceeds earmarked for a $307 million addition to Ventura County Medical Center. The three-story, 232,000 square foot, 120-bed facility is slated for completion in 2017. The […]
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.
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■ 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.