LA JOLLA, CALIF. — McCarthy has begun construction for a $456 million project on the La Jolla campus of Scripps Memorial Hospital. The Scripps Cardiovascular Institute will be located at 9888 Genesee Ave. and is the first of three new towers planned for the hospital campus as part of its 25-year master plan. The towers will eventually replace the existing hospital.
The Scripps Institute will feature 10 levels of patient care including 60 ICU beds on two levels, 108 patient beds on three medical surgery levels, six operating rooms, four CATH/EP labs, a sterile processing department and an imaging department. A tunnel will be constructed to connect the new building's basement with the existing hospital.
The new facility will feature several sustainable design elements. Large expanses of windows will increase the amount of ambient natural light. Water- and energy-saving building systems will be installed. In addition, the building will feature elements to increase patient comfort an care including decentralized nurse stations, a decentralized medication dispensing process and patient rooms with wireless Internet access, LCD televisions and pullout couches.
Completion for the project is slated for January 2015, with the institute opening that April. Jacobs Engineering Group is serving as construction manager, and HOK Architects is the project architect.
— Coleman Wood