KLMK Group Wins Md. Hospital Contracts

SILVER SPRING, Md. — KLMK Group Inc., a provider of healthcare planning and facility-related advisory services, was awarded the contract for program management of a bed tower expansion at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring and its new hospital to be built in Germantown, Md.

 

Holy Cross Hospital – Silver Spring is planning a six-story tower approximately 175,000 to 200,000 square feet, to be linked to the existing hospital structure. A four-level extension will be added to the existing parking garage accommodating approximately 300 cars.

 

Development and construction of a new 237,000-square-foot, full-service acute care hospital is also planned for Germantown. The new hospital will have all private rooms with 93 adult beds and an eight-bed special care nursery. There will also be five labor and delivery rooms, six operating rooms, a 12 bay emergency department, an eight-bed observation unit and all necessary ancillary diagnostic and treatment services and support services.

 

KLMK Group is working with Holy Cross and Trinity Health, the healthcare system that operates Holy Cross, since 2008 when the initial Certificates of Need were submitted, and final approval of the CONs was granted in January.

 

“KLMK provided excellent support throughout our approval process. I’m pleased to continue to work with them as we move toward construction,” said Annice Cody, vice president of strategic planning for Holy Cross.

 

The last time Maryland approved a CON for a new hospital was in 1981.

 

Work on both projects will begin immediately with completion of the new hospital in Germantown scheduled in early 2014 and completion of the expansion of the Holy Cross facility about a year later.