CHULA VISTA, Calif.—Sharp Rees-Stealy Otay Ranch Medical Center is undergoing a significant transformation. The $86 million project consists of a new two-story medical office building with an urgent care center, advanced imaging technology and expanded services, as well as a 610-stall parking structure.

The new medical building is expected to open in 2025 and will help support the health care needs of the region’s growing population. It will add 60,000 square feet of space to the medical center at 1400 East Palomar Street — nearly doubling the facility’s size. The new construction will be attached to the existing medical center and connected by interior lobbies.

“We’re very excited to provide new and expanded services to meet the needs of the growing community,” said Stacey Hrountas, CEO of Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Centers. “This expansion will provide more space and advanced facilities to ensure we can continue to provide the high-quality, coordinated care our patients expect and deserve.”

Once complete, the lower level will feature a state-of-the-art urgent care center, advanced radiology services and new lab. The second level will house specialty departments, including oncology, dermatology, audiology, and physical therapy for adults and children. Sharp Rees-Stealy Otay Ranch will remain open during the construction period.

“The expansion of our Otay Ranch medical center will allow us to provide outstanding care and The Sharp Experience to more patients and their families,” said Dr. Alan Bier, president of Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group. “It’s much more than an investment in our infrastructure; it’s an investment in the health of our community.”

Designed by HGW Architecture with DPR Construction serving as the general contractor, the expansion will take place in two phases. The first phase is already complete and includes the construction of a new four-level parking garage with capacity for 610 vehicles. The parking structure opened in December 2023. The second phase of the project is now underway, which includes the medical office building expansion.

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WILDOMAR, Calif.—DPR Construction recently marked the topping out of the Southwest Healthcare Inland Valley Hospital expansion project in Wildomar.

The new seven-story, 290,000-square-foot patient tower will accommodate 102 beds to support Riverside County’s growing population. The campus will be equipped with leading-edge clinical technologies for minimally invasive procedures and advanced therapies, and sustainable infrastructure including energy-efficient LED fixtures and solar panels.

“Achieving topping out of the new tower brings us closer to realizing our goal of delivering leading-edge care to more patients,” said Southwest Healthcare CEO Jared Giles. “It’s inspiring to think about how this structure is going to impact local families for years to come. This will be a place of miracles and healing for the community.”

As the only designated Trauma Center in Southwest Riverside County, the existing healthcare campus has remained fully operational throughout construction. The project team relocated every major utility that sat in the footprint of the new tower.

“As a resident of Inland Valley, I am honored to be celebrating this major milestone with our skilled trade workers,” said superintendent Bob Gorham. “We’ve worked closely with the Southwest Healthcare team to minimize disruption and maintain the patient experience.”

More than 600 local workers from a variety of trades have worked 173,200 hours to bring the project to this point.

HOK is the design architect. Major trade partners working on the project include SPW Concrete & Drywall, Schuff Steel, DBC, UMEC, Murray Co., Berg Electric, BAPCO, McIntyre, Neville Group and Woodbridge.

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HILLCREST, Calif.—DPR Construction recently celebrated the topping out of the new outpatient pavilion at UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest on June 23, 2023.

Part of the first phase of the UC San Diego Long Range Development Plan, the six-story, 250,000-square-foot advanced medical facility will house key clinical programs, addressing the region’s growing demand for specialized diagnostic, treatment and surgical services, notably in cancer care.

The first phase of construction also includes a new parking structure to provide approximately 1,850 spaces for employees, patients and visitors, plus related road and utility infrastructure.

“The new outpatient pavilion will reflect the world-class care UC San Diego Health provides to the community on a daily basis. It’s so exciting to have achieved this topping out construction milestone,” said Lisa Rhodes, chief administrative officer for the Hillcrest redevelopment plan at UC San Diego Health. “We will transform lives in the new outpatient pavilion — ranging from regular checkups for orthopedic care, to infusion therapy for cancer treatment. Our multi-disciplinary teams will provide support services and the highest quality of care for San Diegans during their most vulnerable moments and throughout their health care journeys.”

The project team has focused on a “one team” approach throughout the project, working with a shared mission to navigate challenges together, pointed toward success for all.

“Everyone on our site knows that what we’re building is going to affect the lives of people in the community,” said Ian Pyka, a DPR Construction project executive. “In some cases, that’s people they know, but it could be our own families who come here for care. Everyone sees how what they do for the project plays a role in creating a place for care that will make a difference.”

The project is taking place on a complex site. In addition to needing to plan around an active hospital campus – the emergency department driveway is adjacent to the project site, for instance – the project is also in the middle of a residential neighborhood with many one-way streets, meaning logistical planning for deliveries and even staff arrival has been important. The site itself occupies a ravine that had a 75-ft. elevation change from one end to the other before work began.

“We’re working on an active campus and the team has spent a lot of time at the planning table to make sure everything moves smoothly and safely,” Pyka said. “Having all the right people at the table at the right time has been instrumental to success to date.”

The project team includes Arcadis (architect) and DPR Construction (general contractor).

Completion of the project is expected in 2025.

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FORT WORTH, Texas—Texas Oncology recently broke ground on a new 22,300-square-foot cancer care center in the Alliance Corridor that will provide medical oncology, hematology, radiation oncology, and infusion treatments, all in one location. Located at 9750 Hillwood Parkway, at Alliance Town Center, the new Texas Oncology–Keller expects to open in 2022. Once open, patients and their care teams at the existing Texas Oncology–Keller, located on Bourland Road in Keller, will transfer to the new facility at Alliance Town Center.

“Texas Oncology provides leading-edge cancer care where our patients live and work, and this new cancer center will allow us to care for more patients in the growing Alliance Corridor and Keller region,” said R. Steven Paulson, M.D., president and chairman of the board, Texas Oncology. “The development of this new cancer care facility confirms our commitment to providing innovative, comprehensive, and individualized care for patients across Texas.”

In addition to the comprehensive cancer care offered at Texas Oncology–Keller, Texas Breast Specialists–Keller will be on-site and will offer breast surgery services. The American Cancer Society estimates that more than 133,730 Texans will be diagnosed with cancer this year, including 20,900 new breast cancer patients.

“As the Alliance Corridor and Keller population continues to grow, access to comprehensive cancer care becomes vitally important,” said Henrik Illum, M.D., medical oncologist, Texas Oncology–Keller. “With a range of specialties and services, and an integrated team of physicians, nurses, and support staff, Texas Oncology–Keller expects to care for more than 100 patients per day.”

Hillwood and Meridian serve as the real estate developers of the project. Corgan and E4H serve as the architects and DPR Construction is the general contractor.

Texas Oncology is an independent private practice with more than 500 physicians and 210 locations across the state.

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FAIRFIELD, Calif.—DPR Construction worked with design partner Perkins Eastman (formerly known as Ratcliff Architects, LBL) for an on-time delivery of the new 80,000-square-foot north wing of the NorthBay Medical Center in the city of Fairfield, located in the northeastern side of the San Francisco Bay Area. The existing medical capabilities of the NorthBay Medical Center remained open for business during the upgrade project.

The three-story edifice connects with the medical center’s existing 1992 building and features a central sterile department, eight high-tech surgical suites, a 16-bed pre-op/PACU and 22 patient rooms. Furthermore, a complete overhaul of the healthcare facility’s 20,000-square-foot emergency department was also part of the work.

The design and construction firms jointly announced that several elements of the work were attained under an integrated project delivery (IDR) as a way to keep the project on schedule. DPR and Perkins Eastman collaborated with structural engineer Thornton Tomasetti and other parties to keep the work moving in such a way that the construction came in under budget. This was partially achieved thanks to virtual design capabilities as well as prefabrication.

“NorthBay’s belief in the integrated team, having us all there on site every day and being able to make timely and well-informed decisions were all keys to our success,” DPR project manager Stephanie Jones-Lee said in a statement when the project was delivered this fall. “If there was an urgent item that came up that we needed a solution to, we could just walk over to the architect or engineer, get the subcontractor on the phone and hash it out right there.”

“Almost all of our RFIs were confirming RFIs, meaning we had already talked through the issue with the design partners before we sent it in for documentation purposes,” added DPR BIM project lead Jonathan Savosnick. “I think that made a huge difference on this project and made the process a lot faster, easier to prioritize and more successful.”

DPR announced the NorthBay facility’s expansion applied a first-of-its-kind prefabricated ConXtech structural steel system, wherein pieces of the structure were fabricated offsite and then delivered to the construction location for quick assembly in place. Furthermore, this was one of the first hospitals in California to make use of a ARTIS pheno operating room equipment, which can be moved into or out of an OR for better ease of use.

The designers and builders also made use of virtual reality to verify roof clearances with NorthBay engineers. The “virtual” work saved time at the jobsite by heading off potential problems before they could occur in the construction itself.

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PASADENA, Calif. — CO Architects was recently recognized by local and national organizations for two different major healthcare projects in California and Arizona at the Los Angeles Business Council’s (LABC) 48th Annual Architectural Awards.

One of the recipients of this award was the Shriners for Children Medical Center; a facility that combines a three-story building for surgery, clinical services, rehabilitation and healing landscapes.

Collaboratively designed by CO Architects and SRG Partnership, the facility was a part of an effort to replace and renovate its aging facilities as well as responding to the hospital’s new business model of focusing on outpatient services for young patients.

Now, Shriner’s new 74,800-square-foot center concentrates on outpatient services to better meet its mission of providing care to young patients.

The teams’ goal was to create a design that leverages evidence-based design strategies, the redevelopment of a suburban site, and an outward-facing building design that provides a positive emotional journey for patients and families.

The two-acre site is separated into a modern, medical building on the northern half of the property while rehabilitation gardens and outdoor gathering areas are situated in the southern part. The new medical facility is also half the size of its predecessor, yet can service three times the number of patients.

The design incorporates a garden forecourt and upper-story terraces to draw people outside to connect with nature and their surroundings.

The contemporary architecture of sweeping horizontal planes, cantilevers, and setbacks, along with region-sensitive landscape, is consistent with the modernist legacy of Pasadena.

Looking at the interior, CO Architects and SRG focused on color and shape, while avoiding childish clichés.

The interiors feature playful, colorful themes based on the ocean, forest, and sky with custom-designed murals depicting flora and fauna in colorful silhouettes run along the corridors, fostering a welcoming discovery on the way to waiting areas and treatment rooms, and working as positive distractions for the child patients. The center also touts vibrant furnishings arranged in various ways to accommodate families and visitors.

Furthermore, environmentally sensitive strategies helped form the architecture to improve patient comfort, encourage healing, and save energy and operating costs. Energy-efficient glazing, protective overhangs and highly efficient mechanical systems are designed to offset energy use.

“It was important to maximize natural light, not only for the healing factor, but also to avoid interiors that felt dark and sterile,” said Fabian Kremkus, AIA, LEED GA, design principal at CO Architects. “Rooms are configured so light is passed inward from perimeter spaces, while internal courtyards allow daylight to reach the center of the building.”

Kremkus continued, stating that in addition to the patient check-in, exam rooms, and x-ray areas on the ground floor – the team also integrated a low-dose imaging system and prosthetic limb manufacturing space.

In the main lobby, an interactive feature wall draws kids into the space and changes images with kinetic motion ignited by touch. LED lighting is used in all hallways and exam and x-ray rooms where patients can alter the color of the illumination, which provides a pleasant distraction from the clinical processes taking place.

The second floor features pre-operative and post-anesthesia care units that are both visually and acoustically private to maintain patient dignity. Within these spaces, patients can control room lighting, entertainment, and education systems, as well as nurse assistance needs, giving them greater autonomy and sense of control.

The third-floor medical library features a connection to the operating rooms via an electronic video integration system to view surgeries as they are happening. On the roof, light monitors with automated louvers provide shading when necessary from the bright summer sun to preserve energy. Additionally, large portions of the glazing on the south and east side feature integrated specular louvers to enhance daylighting and mitigate solar heat gain.

Construction on the center began in 2015 and wrapped up in 2017.

The design team also included Rios Clementi Hale Studios as the landscape architect and DPR Construction as the general contractor.

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LEESBURG, Va. — Construction is currently underway on a new patient tower at the Inova Loudoun Hospital (ILH) in Leesburg. The new patient tower is just one phase of Loudon Hospital’s master plan for expansion of its facilities, is projected for completion sometime in 2020.

Projects already completed in the $300 million master plan include but are not limited to: the first two phases of the Inova Heart and Vascular Institute/Schaufeld Family Heart Center expansion, the addition of the Natural Birth Center, expansion of the surgical center, and a new 14-bed observation unit.

The seven-story 366,000-square-foot patient tower was designed by HDR headquartered out of Omaha, Neb., HDR collaborated with RSG Architects (newly named Environments 4 Health — E4H — as of March 22, 2018. DPR Construction headquartered out of Redwood City, Calif. is the general contractor on the project. A groundbreaking was held on Sept. 17, 2017, giving the project a two to three-year construction schedule.  

The new patient tower will feature private patient-centered rooms, as well as an expanded progressive care unit, an expanded intensive care unit as well as the expanded Inova Heart and Vascular Institute Schaufeld Family Heart Center. In addition, the new tower will include more services which will include level III trauma at the Inova Virts Miller Family Emergency and Trauma Center and throughout the entire hospital, as well as more outpatient services, diagnostic imaging and more space shelled for expansion in the future.

“As a member of the Loudoun community, I am thrilled with the fact that a health system like Inova is committed to and investing in the communities they serve,” said Jason Beshore, health principal at HDR in a recent statement. “We’re directly involving the community as well through the Inova Loudoun Hospital Foundation, an effort that has been well-received with community members seeing themselves as necessary partners in this transformation.”

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PALO ALTO, Calif. – The main building at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Stanford is now open. The impressive hospital has been a work in progress for over ten years, making its completion a cause for true celebration for all of those involved in the extensive project, as well as those who will benefit from its services.

The building was designed by Perkins+Will out of its New York office, in conjunction with Hammel, Green and Abrahamson Architects, Inc. (HGA), headquartered out of Minneapolis, Minn. DPR Construction served as the general contractor on the project, headquartered out of Redwood City, Calif.

The main building of the new hospital was officially opened on Dec. 9, 2017, after the hospital was given its licence by the California Department of Public Health on Dec. 4, just five days before. An official ribbon-cutting ceremony took place on November 30 which included approximately 300 leaders from the hospital and Stanford University, as well as elected officials, community partners and members of the donor community.

“Hundreds of staff prepared for months and months for this day, when this new building became part of our working hospital,” said Christopher G. Dawes, president and chief executive officer at Lucile Packard Hospital and Stanford Children’s Health in a recent statement.

The new 521,000-square-foot building increases the original pediatric and obstetric hospital size by more than double. Expansion of the new building meant the addition of 149 patient beds, bringing the total bed count to 361 on the Palo Alto campus.

While the main building of the new hospital is open for business, more construction remains to be accomplished on the West building over the next few years. Construction will include a new surgery center with six new operating suites, as well as intraoperative MRI technology and angiography equipment in the neuro-hybrid surgery suite that will be constructed.

Amongst many other exciting features, the new main building at Lucile Packard is the anticipation of LEED Gold certification, which, when achieved, will make the new hospital one of the most sustainable children’s hospitals in the country, according to Robin Guenther, principal at Perkins + Will in a recent statement.  

The new building features sustainable features such as water-efficient landscaping and water collection systems. These features are projected to save 800,000 gallons of water annually. In addition, ventilation and shading systems have been installed that will mean reducing thermal energy usage by 60 percent, as compared to other similar hospitals in the area.

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — After a long construction schedule that began in 2013, the Riverside Community Hospital (RCH) announced the opening of its brand new seven-story patient tower on Oct. 16, 2017. Orthopedic and surgery patients were moved in to the new tower space on Oct. 30, 2017 by hospital staff, volunteers and administration.

The new tower had a budget of $460 million. Perkins+Will was the architect on the project based out of their Los Angeles office, with DPR Construction based out of Redwood City, Calif. and Skanska AB out of their Riverside office offering construction services.

The vision behind the design of the project was to enable the hospital to provide cutting-edge technology, advanced services to critically ill patients and evidence-based design features that will enhance clinical operations, safety and quality and a more comfortable place for patients to receive care, according to a statement on the Riverside Community Hospital website.

The 285,000 seven-story square-foot tower includes 105 private patient rooms, a new cafeteria, kitchen and a new state-of-the-art laboratory. The new bed count includes 35 additional ICU beds, and 70 medical and surgical beds, which brings the total number of licensed beds in the hospital to 478 including the existing beds, with room for 84 more when needed in the future.

All new rooms offer floor-to-ceiling windows with sweeping views of downtown Riverside or Mt. Rubidoux, and feature tiled bathrooms with showers, allowing patients to experience a serene atmosphere for their recovery.

The new tower also includes a new surgical pre-op and post-op surgical recovery area. In addition, there is a new three-story medical office building, a new five-level 1,060-space parking garage, as well as additions and expansions to the medical imaging department equipment additions and expansions. Finally, a seismic retrofit and cosmetic upgrades were made to the existing patient tower.

“RCH has come a long way over the last decade and the completion of the new tower is a remarkable milestone for us as we continue to support the health and well-being of a growing community,” said Patrick Brilliant, president and chief executive officer at Riverside Community Hospital in a recent statement. “Our patients will receive the same exceptional care by our staff regardless of which tower they reside in. The addition of our new tower is a representation of our continued commitment to providing high quality, compassionate care in a healing environment for our patients.”

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The architects on the project are Shepley Bulfinch in Phoenix and GLHN Architects & Engineers in Tucson. The construction contractor was a joint venture (Sundt|DPR, A Joint Venture) between Sundt Construction in Tucson and DPR Construction located in Phoenix. This was the seventh joint venture partnership for Sundt and DPR Construction. The whole team broke ground on the tower in May 2016, according to a recent statement, while completion is currently slated for 2019.

The budget for this 670,000-square-foot project and renovations on the existing 75,000-square-foot facility is $400 million, with $50 million of that going to new patient care equipment and computers for state-of-the-art care. The new tower will be nine stories tall, and will have a new main entryway, new cafeteria and support departments on the first floor, according to a statement.

There will be new diagnostic imaging, diagnostic cardiology, cardiac cath labs and interventional radiology on the second floor. The tower will also include new operating rooms and patient prep and recovery space on the third floor, 204 new patient rooms on floors five through nine, and women and infant services on the fifth floor, with more medical and surgical and ICU beds on floors six through eight. The ninth floor will have more medical and surgical beds in addition to 24 more patient rooms.

The placement of this final piece of the tower marks that the uppermost structural framing of the new tower is ready to be set and that the structure has reached its maximum height. While the new tower is currently in its metal “skeleton” form of what it will eventually become, it is scheduled to open for services in spring 2019.

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