Iowa Regents Poised to Approve Hospital Project

URBANDALE, Iowa — The state Board of Regents will consider for design and budget approval a $271 million Children’s Hospital project, part of a $1.1 billion long-term facilities plan for University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

The Children’s Hospital will be 371,600 square feet in new construction and 56,250 square feet in renovated space for a total of 427,850 square feet.

The university first presented the idea of a new Children’s Hospital and a corresponding long-term building plan to the regents in 2008 and received approval. But the plans were put on hold as the recession affected hospital revenues.

Revenues have rebounded, officials said, and the long-term facilities plan has been shifted to cover 2011 to 2020. In addition to the new Children’s Hospital tower, the project will convert all patient rooms to private rooms, increase operating room space, improve parking and wayfinding and move many clinics and ambulatory care facilities off-site to create more space at the main hospital campus.

The list also includes plans for a second, $400 million new patient beds tower to be built at on the hospital campus between 2016 and 2020. The Children’s Hospital will accommodate 140 replacement and new acute and intensive care pediatric beds. Another 55 pediatric beds will continue in UI Hospital’s existing Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, which will be physically linked to 28 additional NICU beds in the new Children’s Hospital.

Total pediatric inpatient admissions have grown by nearly 20 percent over the past five years, officials said.

UI leaders expect to raise $50 million privately for the project, with naming opportunities available. The tower is scheduled for completion in 2015.

The regents next week will also consider approval to proceed with planning on two other UI Hospitals projects: a $14.6 million Family Medicine Center at UI’s Hawkeye Campus and a $6 million community-based Primary Care Clinic in North Liberty.

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Tampa Area Hospital Expanding

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. — Oak Hill Hospital has launched a new $50,000, 100,000-square-foot expansion and renovation project on its existing campus.

The project will include a two-story inpatient tower with 36 private rooms, construction of eight additional operating room suites, renovation of the existing endoscopy suites, replacement and expansion of the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit to include 18 beds, renovation and expansion of the Central Sterile Department, expansion of the power plant to accommodate the power needs of the larger campus and make it more energy efficient, and construction of a new patient and visitor parking lot.

Oak Hill is also currently adding 20 private telemetry rooms on its sixth floor at a cost of $6.5 million. That project is almost complete. The expansion project will add 75,000 square feet to the hospital. And additional 25,000 square feet will receive major renovations and another 7,000 will receive minor renovations.

The Oak Hill Hospital project is the largest health care expansion project Hernando County has seen. Once it is complete, the hospital will have 262 acute care beds — 61 percent of them private – making it the largest health care facility in Hernando and Citrus Counties. The additional capacity will help offset the shortage of space, which during peak times exceeds 100 percent of capacity.

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