Inpatient Projects: Methodist Hospital project leads Omaha healthcare construction boom
OMAHA, Neb. – Construction is underway on a $90 million expansion of the surgery department at Methodist Hospital at 8303 Dodge St. in Omaha. The project will relocate cardiac services into one large area and expand the surgery department into space vacated by obstetrical and gynecological services, which relocated to Methodist Women’s Hospital in Omaha. […]
Inpatient Projects: OhioHealth adds $91 million to investment in MedCentral Hospitals in wake of merger
COLUMBUS, Ohio – OhioHealth, a Columbus, Ohio-based family of not-for-profit, faith-based hospitals, announced that it will invest an additional $91 million over its earlier announced investment for capital improvements to two hospitals — OhioHealth MedCentral Mansfield in Mansfield, Ohio, and OhioHealth MedCentral Shelby in Shelby, Ohio. OhioHealth and the MedCentral Health system merged in March, […]
Inpatient Projects: Methodist Health to build $118 million patient tower in Mansfield, Texas
MANSFIELD, Texas – Methodist Health System recently broke ground on a $118 million, 110,000 square foot patient tower that will be connected to the Methodist Mansfield Medical Center at 2700 E. Broad St. in Mansfield, Texas, about 33 miles southwest of Dallas. Levi Davis, chairman of the Methodist Health System board of directors, said the […]
Inpatient Projects: University Hospital Sky Tower opens
$787 million, 1 million square foot, 420-room space added to San Antonio hospital By Connie M. McCaffrey University Health System has just opened the new $787 million, 10-story, 1 million square foot, 420-room Sky Tower at 4502 Medical Drive in the South Texas Medical Center in San Antonio. The new University Hospital tower completes […]
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HealthOne, the parent company of Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colo., plans to invest $50 million to expand and renovate Swedish Medical’s stroke and neuroscience center. The project will include adding 65,000 square feet of space, renovating 28,000 square feet and increasing the number of beds to 39 for the neuroscience program. It also will […]
Inpatient Projects: Carolinas Healthcare to determine next steps after adverse court ruling
CHARLOTTE, S.C. – Charlotte-based Carolinas Healthcare System recently lost a bid to build a new hospital in Fort Mill, S.C. after an administrative law judge awarded the project to Piedmont Medical Center, which is based in Rock Hill, S.C. The issue of which health system should build the Fort Mill hospital has been appealed in […]
Inpatient Projects: San Francisco booming with $20 billion in hospital construction
SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Business Times reports that in the next six years, the San Francisco Bay area will be home to at least 14 new hospitals with an estimated total cost of at least $20 billion. These include: Sutter Health’s $2.1 billion California Pacific Medical Center at Geary Street and Van Ness […]
Inpatient Projects: $400M UF Shands plan moves ahead
System taps Skanska USA Building for $225 million of pre-construction services By Connie M. McCaffrey The planned $400 million, 521,000 square foot addition to the University of Florida (UF) Shands Cardiovascular Neuroscience Hospital in Gainesville, Fla., took a big step toward reality recently. Skanska USA Building announced April 7 that it has signed a contract […]
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Tribal leaders from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians recently broke ground on a 150,000 square foot, $75 million Cherokee Indian Hospital in Cherokee, N.C. The hospital, which is expected to be completed in early 2016, will include 20 inpatient beds, integrated care outpatient services, lab, pharmacy, complementary therapies, physical therapy and other services.
Inpatient Projects: Akron Children’s Hospital expansion two weeks ahead of schedule
AKRON, Ohio – CBRE Healthcare, a commercial real estate services and investment firm, and Akron Children’s Hospital recently held a topping out ceremony for a seven-story, 368,735 square foot expansion of the campus, near Locust and Exchange Streets in Akron. Hospital officials said in a news release that despite inclement winter weather, the $200 million […]
Inpatient Projects: Construction of Sanford’s huge new North Dakota hospital is on time, on budget
FARGO, N.D. – Officials of Sanford Fargo Medical Center say construction on the seventh largest hospital project now underway in the country is still on time and on budget. The hospital also is one of the top 10 healthcare projects in the United States and one of the largest non-industrial construction projects in North and […]
Inpatient Projects: Baylor Health Care System hospital almost complete, will open on schedule
WAXAHACHIE, Texas – Officials from Baylor Health Care System recently hosted a tour of the Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in Waxahachie to let the public see the progress on the hospital’s construction. The $175.5 million, 299,000 square foot facility is about 60 percent complete and is on track to open this December.
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 […]