Inpatient Projects

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 […]

Centegra Health is moving forward with preliminary construction for its planned $233 million, 128-bed Centegra Huntley Hospital in Huntley, Ill., even though an appeal from competitors is still pending.
Rendering courtesy of Kahler Slater Inc.

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

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 […]

Riverside Health System of Newport News, Va., recently broke ground for a replacement for its Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital in Nassawadox, Va. The new hospital and adjacent outpatient facility will have a total cost of about $80 million. (Rendering courtesy of Riverside Health)

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.

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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. The new hospital,

Washington Hospital in Fremont, Calif., plans to start construction this fall for the $300 million, 250,000 square foot Morris Hyman Critical Care Pavilion to house expanded emergency, intensive care and other services. (Rendering courtesy of Cammisa and Wipf Consulting Engineers)

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, […]