VENICE, Fla.—Gilbane Building and Sarasota Memorial Health Care System marked a major milestone with the topping out of the Venice Campus Bed Tower expansion. Opening in 2024, the new patient tower will add 102 new private patient rooms to the Venice hospital, with dedicated surgical, cardiac, and orthopedic units and expanded space for clinical and support departments.

“Gilbane is excited to celebrate the on-time topping-out milestone as construction continues to progress towards the planned opening next year,” said Cary Shippert, Vice President, Southeast Director of Healthcare and Science/Technology, Gilbane Building Company. “Utilizing lean and prefabrication initiatives, the project team continues to provide accelerated, on-time delivery of each project. Assisting our client through a phased transition process will help them open their facility quickly to meet the rising demand for health care in southwest Florida.”

Meanwhile, Sarasota Memorial is also moving forward with expanding the Venice Hospital’s Emergency Care Center and surgical division to double capacity in those areas.
“These are critical expansions that will improve access and care for the entire region,” said Sarasota Memorial CEO David Verinder. “The new tower will nearly double the Venice hospital’s capacity, to more than 200 beds and help meet current and future needs in the community.”

Master planned and designed by Flad Architects, the 65-acre Laurel Road campus is designed for future growth, which includes doubling in size to 400 private inpatient suites, 16 surgical suites, and a 50-bed ER without compromising current operations. The SMH Venice project has won numerous design awards and a recent Construction Award of Merit for “Best Projects” from ENR magazine.

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Skanska, based in New York City, provides construction management, preconstruction and design-build services to acute care hospitals, specialty outpatient centers and academic medical centers throughout the U.S.

The alliance with Cedar Falls, Iowa-based Prime Logic Partners was created to enhance Skanska’s ability to help health care organizations their investments in IT infrastructure, according to a statement from Skanska.

Prime Logic Partners provides health care organizations with IT infrastructure consulting and services to the health care industry. Together, the companies have developed a customized modular data center approach for health care providers that incorporates capacity, density and security innovations.

The modular data, built to specifications offsite and shipped to the location, allows for faster deployment, scale capacity as needed and lowered total cost of ownership, according to the company.

“Innovation and value are clear necessities to help navigate today’s changing health care landscape,” said Skanska Senior Vice President Andrew Quirk, who leads the company’s Healthcare Center of Excellence. “As the industry becomes more complex, we are partnering with our clients to develop solutions that positively impact their overall margins, energy efficiency, and sustainable practices in a measurable way.”

Mark Stewart, partner with Prime Logic Partners, said resilient IT infrastructure is necessary given the implementation of electronic health records.

“We see health care regulations taking a similar path as the financial services industry and increasing the levels of security and risk mitigation required by the provider,” Stewart said.

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