DENVER—Dallas-based developer Fidelis Healthcare Partners has broken ground on the 100,000-square-foot Saint Joseph Medical Office Pavilion, located on the Denver hospital’s Uptown campus.  The mixed-use project will offer both healthcare space as well as retail and restaurant space.

The groundbreaking took place June 5 at the northwest corner of East 18th Avenue and North Ogden Street in downtown Denver, with representatives from Saint Joseph Hospital and parent company SCL Health in attendance.

“We are excited to work with Fidelis Healthcare Partners on this development project that will bring new energy to our campus and the Uptown neighborhood,” Jameson Smith, president of Saint Joseph Hospital, said in a statement about the strategic partnership.  “This new space will provide the opportunity to better serve patients and the growing community around us.”

The Saint Joseph Medical Office Pavilion will entail three floors dedicated to Class A medical office space, with the ground floor being reserved for retail and restaurant outlets.  Ground-level covered parking for physicians and adjacent free parking for patients, tenants and visitors are also in the plans. 

Additionally, an outdoor/indoor rooftop space will offer staff and visitors a unique view of downtown Denver and the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.

“We feel incredibly fortunate to be teamed with Saint Joseph and SCL Health on this exciting project,” said Kevin O’Neil, president and CEO of Fidelis Healthcare Partners.  “When you add in the intangibles of what’s going on in the nearby downtown Denver market, and this project being the front door to both the virtually brand-new Saint Joseph’s campus and the Uptown Medical District, it results in very special real estate with a great campus partner.”

Saint Joseph Hospital opened its doors in 1873, making it the first privately operated hospital in all of Colorado.  It is now the largest private teaching hospital in the Mile High City and offers specialized care in cancer treatment, pregnancy and childbirth and heart care.  “Saint Joe” opened its $650 million, 375-bed acute care facility in late 2014, and it was rated by Healthgrades as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals in both 2017 and 2018.  Its clinical partners include Kaiser Permanente and National Jewish Health. 

Parent company SCL Health is a nonprofit, faith-based system encompassing 10 hospitals in Colorado and Montana. 

Developer Fidelis Healthcare Partners is a healthcare real estate venture established in September 2017.  The firm works on the long-term ownership of hospital-sponsored medical real estate on campuses and in the communities they serve.  The Saint Joseph Medical Office Pavilion will be owned by Fidelis Healthcare Strategic Partners, a joint venture that will be advised by investment firm Bentall Kennedy.

“Bentall Kennedy [has] supported our efforts to be aggressive in delivering a unique, multifaceted building with compelling economics,” said Mark C. Allyn, chief investment officer with Fidelis Healthcare Partners.  “In addition, tenants will be getting a strong value proposition through competitive rents on a brand-new building with free parking and many uses seldomly provided within the confines of the medical office building.”

The entirety of the medical pavilion is expected to be completed in July 2020. 

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LONGMONT, Colo. — UCHealth in Denver is slated to complete construction on the new Longs Peak hospital in Longmont this June. The new hospital will address the healthcare needs of the surrounding and fast-growing populations north and east of Longmont including Niwot, Firestone, Erie, Frederick and Dacono that currently must travel elsewhere to receive care.

This 210,000-square-foot building includes the Longs Peak Hospital and the UCHealth Longs Peak Surgery Center, with a budget of $190 million. The architect on the project is WHR Architects out of Dallas, Texas, and the general contractor is Haselden Construction out of Denver. The new hospital will have 51 inpatient beds with room for 50 more with approximately 80,000 square feet of shelled space for future inpatient needs, according to Dan Robinson, chief executive officer of the new UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital.

The hospital waiting areas on all three floors open to a bright and sunny atrium with 73 feet of glass. All of the stairways are surrounded by windows bringing in natural light, which will encourage people —patients, physicians, visitors and more — to take the stairs instead of the elevators, according to Robinson. All of the post partum rooms have large windows with views of Long’s Peak, and many of the other patient rooms face west, bringing in lots of light. “The orientation of the rooms and the large windows makes the patient rooms warm, inviting and family-friendly,” said Robinson.

The hospital’s architecture uses regional stone and wood building products to maintain a local feel, according to Tushar Gupta, lead designer at WHR Architects. “WHR’s design team is proud to collaborate with UCHealth to create an innovative, welcoming and healing environment for the community,” said Gupta, in a recent statement. “The design establishes a strong visual identity, in distinctive form and native materiality, that will be part of UCHealth’s new facilities throughout the region going forward,” Gupta said.

The entire hospital structure is being built to LEED standards with the use of sustainable building materials, and prefab construction was employed for the project, according to Robinson. “The use of prefab construction was an effort on our part to increase the timeline of the hospital construction, and also to be environmentally responsible,” Robinson said.

The hospital will have an intensive care unit, a level III trauma center and emergency department, and advanced cardiac services. It will have a birthing center with a level II special care nursery, and a heliport for emergency transfers to other acute-care hospitals. There will be lab and imaging services, and a 24 hours a day seven day a week retail pharmacy. Additionally, the hospital will offer premie care, and will provide endoscopic ultrasound amongst other advanced services.

A unique trait of this hospital is a new technology for health care: innovative telehealth services, for internal and external communication. UCHealth is installing a technology for internal communication called “Vocera” which allows physicians, nurses and caregivers to communicate directly with each other without the constant noise and interruption of an overhead paging system.

Additionally, a wireless IT platform called “DocLine” will enable the hospital to communicate with other doctors and facilities outside of the Hospital. Physicians will be able to gain realtime consult from specialists via video telecommunication so that patients, doctors and the outside specialists can have consult right in the patient room. “If our beds are full and we need to admit a patient, we can automatically call the DocLine for the nearest hospital available,” Robinson said. DocLine also has the ability to dispatch ambulances based on the needs of the patient and based on the request of the referring physician, according to Robinson.

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