The $35 million, 80,000-square-foot facility will feature a new, team-based approach to health care, education and the community in one location that will serve the region. It will house the region’s first free-standing emergency department as well as outpatient and diagnostic services and community space.

“McCarthy is a trusted partner who truly believes in taking care of its clients,” said Josh Olson, senior project manager, facilities operations for CHI, in a statement. “We know they will deliver the same high standard of care in building this medical center for our community as we do in providing health care and education.”
Specialty care services at the new ambulatory building will include psychiatry, obstetrics/gynecology and a pharmacy. The facility will also be home to Creighton University’s Family Medicine Residency Program, providing new technology that enables virtual visits with physicians located across town as well as student-patient learning. The facility’s goal is to enable interaction while reduce patient costs.
“We know CHI Health is committed to serving the health care needs of the Omaha community while looking to develop leading educational opportunities for future health care professionals,” said Ryan Felton, McCarthy project director, in a statement. “We are focused on providing them with excellent customer service throughout the construction of this building, so they can focus on what they do best — providing excellent health care and education to the community.”
McCarthy has a long history with CHI Health, serving as construction manager and general contractor to deliver their Generation Patient Program, a $250 million renovation and additional capital improvement program for five hospitals in the Omaha area, including CHI Health Immanuel, CHI Health Bergan Mercy, CHI Health Mercy, CHI Health Midlands and CHI Health Lakeside. McCarthy also completed a previous capital improvement program called the New Era Initiative in addition to other various renovations and continuous work.
“We’ve worked with CHI Health for a long time, and we are proud that they have chosen McCarthy to build this forward-thinking health care facility,” said Ryan Sawall, McCarthy project manager, in a statement. “We will continue to be a community partner by collaborating with local small and large businesses to successfully deliver the facility to CHI Health.”
McCarthy will work with Altus Architectural Studio, Specialized Engineering Solutions (SES) — both based in Omaha — and The Davis Companies, which is based in Marlborough, Mass., on the new facility.

The complex is slated to open in late 2016.

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The St. Louis-based contractor McCarthy Building Companies Inc. announced the construction milestone on Dec. 20. HKS Architects, headquartered in Dallas, and St. Louis-based Archimages are serving as the project’s architects.

Following the devastation of an EF-5 tornado that hit the city in May 2011, the former St. John’s Regional Medical Center was left in ruin after it was directly hit. The tornado was recorded as the state of Missouri’s deadliest since 1947. The community quickly responded by planning the new replacement hospital, which began the planning stages in July 2011 and broke ground in January 2012.

“This is hallowed land that no longer belongs to Mercy but to the story of Joplin, of residents enduring a massive disaster by coming together to rebuild and move forward,” said Gary Pulsipher, president of Mercy Hospital Joplin, in a May 2012 statement. “We hope new uses of the campus can weave together as sort of a healing quilt for the city.”

The 260-plus private room replacement hospital will be larger than its predecessor and will include medical surgical, critical care, women’s and children’s, behavioral health and rehabilitation units. The 50-acre campus will also include a seven-story patient tower and a four-story clinic tower.

The milestone is on track with the construction team’s aggressive schedule, according to Ryan Felton, project director with McCarthy.

“In order to keep everyone on track, we have been managing quality through daily inspections, pre-installation meetings and by involving third-party building exterior consultants,” Felton said in a statement. “To date, all built-in-place mockup rooms have been completed, first installations have been verified, windows have been water tested and a thermography scan has been conducted.”

Offside roadwork, two permanent service elevators and a separate 30,000-square-foot central utility plant connected to the hospital via a 450-foot underground tunnel were also reached substantial completion. The central utility plant is expected to open in the early months of 2014.

The contractor’s 39-month schedule includes more than 750 tradesmen. In order to keep up with the aggressive schedule and ensure jobsite safety, McCarthy conducts weekly jobsite toolbox talks, weekly manager walks with all subcontractor managers and daily task hazard analysis.

“McCarthy has a strong quality assurance program that provides strong leadership and oversight of the building enclosure elements such as precast, window and roofing systems,” said John Farnen, executive director of planning, design and construction for Mercy, in a statement. “This includes inspections and testing of these systems during installation. On the Mercy Hospital Joplin, this process uncovered issues during the installation that were addressed and resolved preventing schedule delays. I am confident the McCarthy quality program will achieve the level of quality Mercy expects. McCarthy understands the importance of quality on the project and delivers it.”

The project is scheduled for completion in March 2015.

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