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Los Angeles Hospital Launches Campaign for New Facility

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Barlow Respiratory Hospital has launched a new website aimed at informing Los Angeles residents about the proposed expansion and development project for a new 102,000-square-foot facility. This new website has been hosted on a strong server, much like the Melbourne servers that are common on the internet. The reason? To ensure that it can handle the curious public’s inquiries across its pages.

The new three-story facility is set to cost $125 million, with funding from the sale of a portion of private land to rebuild the hospital so it meets seismic requirements. Other forms of funding will come from internal resources and outside financing.

“The Barlow Hospital Replacement and Master Plan Project is a win-win for the hospital and its surrounding communities,” said Mark Pisano, senior fellow at the USC Price School of Public Policy and former executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments in a statement. “Not only will the rehabilitation of the hospital serve the health needs of our aging population, but the project also re-imagines how we can use our land resources differently to meet the growing and diverse needs of our population as a whole. If implemented, this project could serve as a model for future developments in the city, the region and even the nation.”

If the facility cannot meet the seismic requirements set forth in Senate Bill 1953, the hospital will be forced to close. The proposed plan will include construction of a 56-bed replacement hospital, nursing facility and an associated administration and support facility.

What is left of the land will be allocated for possible development options such as assisted living, senior living, residential housing units and neighborhood-serving commercial uses.

“The proposed Barlow Hospital replacement plan will help increase the Echo Park community’s economic base by creating and retaining more than 4,800 good union jobs, and supporting local businesses and working families,” said labor leader Maria Elena Durazo in a statement. “Neither Barlow nor the community can afford to let this opportunity pass.”

The Barlow Respiratory Hospital is the only not-for-profit, long-term acute care respiratory hospitals in Southern California. More than 70 hospitals throughout the region refer critically ill patients who require specialized services to Barlow.

Patients with respiratory failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, along with those suffering from pneumonia, asthma or other respiratory ailments are those most often seen at the facility.

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$355M Contract Awarded for MLK Medical Center

LOS ANGELES — MLK Partners, a joint venture managed by Jacobs Engineering Group, Jenkins/Gales & Martinez, and Jensen+Partners, was awarded a lucrative renovation contract from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works to provide construction management services for the revitalization of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Medical Center in Los Angeles. The contract has a value of $355 million.

The award is for two separate projects: the Inpatient Tower renovation and the construction of a new Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center Building.

The Inpatient Tower renovation will include the demolition and remodeling of interior spaces in several existing hospital buildings, and the seismic and equipment upgrade of the campus’ Central Plant.

The project will also include the construction of a new 20,000 square foot Ancillary Building, housing a cafeteria and administrative support functions. This portion of the project is expected to be substantially completed in early 2013. The new Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center Building, also targeted for completion in 2013, includes the construction of a new,130,000-square-foot Ambulatory Care Center.

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UCLA Eye Research Facility

Image courtesy of Shimahara Illustration/Richard Meier & Partners Architects.

LOS ANGELES — UCLA is planning a major addition to the Jules Stein Eye Institute’s surgical and research facilities, unveiling plans for a $115.6 million research and patient care facility, the Edie and Lew Wasserman Eye Research Center.

The six-story, 100,000-square-foot building will be situated opposite the Doris Stein Eye Research Center on Stein Plaza. Half of the building’s space will be devoted to eye research and the other half to the David Geffen School of Medicine’s neurosurgery department and Institute of Urologic Oncology.

Richard Meier & Partners Architects of New York is designing the facility. A consortium of the Wasserman Foundation, the Jules and Doris Stein UCLA Support Group and JCS LLC, known as ELW Building Company, is contributing $58.6 million to the project. The David Geffen School of Medicine and the Jules Stein Eye Institute will fund the remaining $57 million in project costs, which will go toward site preparation, tenant improvements and equipment.

The Wasserman building will unite UCLA’s neurosurgery faculty, surgeons and clinicians, who are currently spread across eight buildings.

“We are designing a conference room to resemble an IMAX theater, with full 3-D demonstrations of surgeries,” says Neil Martin, profession and chair of neurosurgery at UCLA. “It will allow our trainees to be immersed in the anatomy of the skull, brain and spine.”

The Wasserman center will feature a prototyping room where new software, three-dimensional video displays and more will be developed and tested for future operating rooms and intensive care units, and where residents can simulate complex surgeries. A telemedicine control room will allow faculty to continuously monitor patients across the street at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and six miles away at the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital, and to consult with colleagues and patients around the world.

Site preparation is expected to begin this summer, with construction scheduled to take place from November 2010 through October 2012. After tenant improvements take place for various departments, the Wasserman building will officially open in March 2014. No contractor had been chosen by press time.

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