Healthcare

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Arlington-based healthcare provider Texas Health Resources will undertake a $300 million expansion project at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth. The project will include a nine-story tower that will feature 144 patient beds, 15 surgical suites and pre- and post-operative service areas. The tower will also include space for support services and two floors will be used as shell space for future expansion. Additional parking space will also be added to the hospital, which opened in 1930 and currently features 720 beds. Construction is slated to begin later this year and wrap up in late 2021.      

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FORT MYERS, FLA. — Skanska USA has unveiled renovation and expansion plans for Gulf Coast Medical Center, a hospital in the Southwest Florida city of Fort Myers. The $229 million expansion will add three floors totaling 365,700 square feet. The project includes the expansion of the emergency departments, clinical laboratory, radiology department, dining services and the central energy plant. The planned expansions will increase the hospital’s bed capacity from 356 to 624. Skanska will also renovate an existing 48,500 square feet of space at the hospital. Skanska is leading the project on behalf of the hospital owner, Lee Health. The development team, including general contractor Gates Construction and architect HKS Inc., expects to complete the hospital’s renovation program by September 2021.

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HATTIESBURG, MISS. — Sina Cos. has broken ground on a new medical office building for the Hattiesburg Clinic in Hattiesburg. The 57,221-square-foot Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine facility will be the second property developed for the clinic, following the development of Women’s Center at 28th Place in 2006. The new facility will house clinical practice space for 14 orthopedic providers, a 9,000-square-foot physical therapy suite, community conference center and an imaging suite. In addition, the building will be connected to a 14,310-square-foot indoor sports center with weight systems, a half-court basketball court, batting cage and a partial turf football field that opens to an exterior natural turf field. MSTSD Architects is designing the project, and Freese-Johnson is the general contractor. Sina expects to wrap up construction on the facility in April 2019. Hattiesburg Clinic is a physician-owned, multi-specialty practice with more than 350 providers serving 19 counties across southern Mississippi.

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SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Easterly Government Properties has agreed to acquire a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Outpatient Clinic known as VA – San Jose. Completed in first-quarter 2018, VA – San Jose is part of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and leased to the VA for an initial, non-cancellable lease term of 20 years through February 2038. The three-story, 90,085-square-foot facility consists of medical clinic and administrative space, offering primary care, mental healthcare, women’s health, audiology, speech pathology, podiatry, optometry and dermatology services. The name of the seller and acquisition price were not disclosed.

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LOS ANGELES — CHA Health Systems Inc. has broken ground on a new patient care tower within CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center (HPMC), a private hospital campus in Hollywood. The nearly 175,000-square-foot tower will replace an existing building at an estimated cost of $291 million. The tower is part of HPMC’s three-phase, $350 million overhaul that includes retrofitting the existing Doctor’s Tower and South Wing to satisfy California’s seismic requirements. The state passed a seismic retrofitting law in the wake of the 1994 Northridge earthquake that requires all acute care medical centers and hospitals to adhere to seismic-specific structural standards by 2030. The goal of the law is for all California hospitals to remain operational in the event of an earthquake, such as the 4.5-magnitude tremor that shook regions of Southern California early this morning. KMD Architects designed the new tower to meet the state’s seismic requirements as well. Doctor’s Tower, South Wing and HPMC’s new parking deck are set to open this year. The tower will double the hospital’s current emergency department with a 26,000-square-foot space that features 20 exam rooms and a private room for women’s services, as well as areas designated for chest pain observation and detox …

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SHERWOOD, ARK. — Denver-based NexCore Group has broken ground on a 42,133-square-foot research and education facility for CHI St. Vincent, an Arkansas-based regional healthcare provider, in the Little Rock suburb of Sherwood. Located at 6020 Warden Road, the facility will be located on CHI St. Vincent’s North Little Rock campus, and will serve as the new home of the Arkansas Neuroscience Institute. The building will include a research laboratory, auditorium, classrooms, an exhibit area and office space for physician practices, expanding the list of services offered to patients on one campus. The Arkansas Neuroscience Institute will relocate its surgical and clinical operations to the new facility by the end of the year. The education and research center is expected to open in early 2019.

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DALLAS — Alabama-based general contractor Brasfield & Gorrie has completed Medical City Women’s Hospital Dallas, a $125 million healthcare project that was developed within the 801-bed Medical City Dallas Hospital. The project added five floors and 222 private rooms to Care Tower D at the complex. Other project features include 24 labor and delivery rooms, 84 neonatal intensive care units, 12 VIP suites and 16 medical/surgical rooms. National architecture firm Perkins + Will designed the property.

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LEAGUE CITY, TEXAS — MD Anderson is nearing completion of its $97 million clinical cancer center at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) League City campus in the greater Houston area. Completion is slated for September. Construction of a 740-space parking garage on the campus, a project valued at roughly $30 million, is also nearing completion. UTMB has also announced plans to add a five-story wing to the main hospital.  

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CARROLLTON, TEXAS — Denver-based Fairfield Asset Advisors has arranged the $8.5 million sale of a 21,500-square-foot medical office building located at 1601 W. Hebron Parkway in the northern Dallas metro of Carrollton. USMD Health System, a Dallas-based specialty practice, serves as the anchor tenant for the building, which was built in 2015. An undisclosed buyer that specializes in medical office acquisitions recently acquired the property from an undisclosed physician and private investor.

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SHENANDOAH, TEXAS — Everson Developments has broken ground on a 58,000-square-foot medical office building at 121 Vision Park Blvd. in Shenandoah, a northern suburb of Houston. Designed by Ziegler Cooper, the three-story, Class A property is slated for completion by year’s end. The J. Beard Real Estate Co. is handling leasing of the property and recently secured its first tenant, Gill Plastic Surgery & Dermatology.

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