FORT COLLINS, Colo.—Integrated design-build firm The Beck Group has started work on a multi-million-dollar renovation of UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital, a 303-bed regional medical center in Fort Collins. The Beck Group is the project’s general contractor; Gallun Snow headed the interior design work.

Poudre Valley Hospital is part of Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth’s network of healthcare facilities serving parts of Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming.

The hospital’s $76.5 million renovation project is scheduled for completion in summer 2023. The renovation includes an estimated 142,000 square feet of space or about one-third of the hospital.

Poudre Valley Hospital awarded the contract to Beck after more than two years of performing pre-construction work on the project, its earlier construction projects for the hospital, and its extensive expertise in healthcare facility design and construction.

Matt Archuletta, Project Executive at Beck’s Denver office, commented: “We are thrilled that Poudre Valley Hospital selected our firm for this major renovation. For several years, Beck made critical renovations to the hospital that have helped it retain its ranking as one of the top healthcare providers in this region. This latest project is designed to further enhance Poudre Valley Hospital’s reputation as a next-generation healthcare facility for its patients.”

The hospital’s transformation is the latest in a series of upgrades for the nearly century-old facility, ranging from small retrofitting projects and adjustments to significant expansions. The new project focuses on making various improvements to the hospital’s interior and exterior to enhance patient care and experience significantly.

Interior work on the hospital’s first floor will use empty space formerly the emergency department site, which was relocated elsewhere. This will include building a new heart and vascular care clinic and testing area, upgrading surgical, imaging, gastroenterology and pulmonary areas, hallways, and relocating the gift and coffee shops and chapel.

The floor’s renovation also includes building a larger lobby area with new seating options, a fireplace and an information desk.

The third-floor renovation will refresh the hospital’s birthing center, the women’s care unit and pediatric care areas, patient recovery areas and other spaces, along with adding new equipment. The work will also relocate nurses’ stations.

Plans also call for new signage, a new canopy at the main entrance, and a redesigned traffic flow on the south side of the hospital’s campus. These features will make the hospital’s main entrance more inviting and functional. The exterior renovation also includes the replacement of the building’s exterior walls and windows.

Founded in 1912, The Beck Group is a collaborative team of designers, builders and technology experts, offering planning, architecture, interior design, construction, sustainability, and technology consulting services.

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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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The partnership, officially called Mount Sinai Heart New York at Jupiter Medical Center, will help the two organizations cover all facets of cardiac care, including interventional cardiology, cardiac rehabilitation, electrophysiology, non-invasive imaging, congestive heart failure, wellness and prevention, and research and education. Professionals like Cardiovascular Group have praised the new project, explaining that this new center could save thousands of lives.

Physicians at Jupiter and Mount Sinai will collaborate to share experience, best practices, evidence-based medicine and quality protocols, and clinical knowledge to help improve patient care. Jupiter’s physicians will be able to access consultations for their patients with Mount Sinai colleagues and the two organizations will partner to use telehealth technology for patient assessments in real-time. The two will also share cardiac imaging and lab results.

Patients will also be able to access clinical trials, cardiac therapies and advanced treatment options. For open-heart surgery or other cardiac procedures not routinely performed at Jupiter, patients will have the option to go to Mount Sinai Heart in New York. Some Florida patients have already been receiving services at the New York facility and vice versa.

“This innovative collaboration with Mount Sinai Heart New York is yet another way we’re delivering unparalleled health care in our very own backyard,” John D. Couris, president and CEO of Jupiter Medical Center, said in a statement. “This kind of innovative thinking will transform cardiac care in our region, and is a significant step forward in our mission to restore our community’s health and wellness.”

Jupiter Medical Center has a roster of cardiac specialists on staff. Additionally, the cardiology program currently includes two state-of-the-art cardiac catheterization labs for diagnostic and interventional procedures, cardiac rehabilitation and advanced technology for non-invasive cardiac testing, including cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA).

Mount Sinai Heart is a home location for Dr. Valentin Fuster, director of the facility and physician-in-chief of Mount Sinai Hospital. Fuster is past president of the American Heart Association, past president of the World Heart Federation, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences where he serves as chair of the committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease. He is also serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).

“I am very excited, as all of us here at Mount Sinai New York, about this new milestone. The field of cardiovascular medicine is moving very rapidly and to advance it further we are going to work together,” Fuster said in a statement. “Shared knowledge leads to more powerful medicine. This alliance is a big plus for both of our institutions and will increase the quality of cardiac care and life of each our patients whether they are in New York or Florida.”

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