DAVENPORT, FLA. — Orlando, Fla.-based HHCP Healthcare recently completed construction on a more than 60,000-square-foot addition to the Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center in Davenport. The project added 52 new patient beds to the fourth floor and expanded the fifth floor. HHCP Healthcare built the hospital in 1997 and has since completed eight additions to the structure.
CHICAGO — RTKL Healthcare Technologies Group will complete technology planning for the new 1.2 million-square-foot hospital pavilion for the University of Chicago Medical Center, which will be located in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The 10-story hospital pavilion, which is scheduled to open in 2012, will focus on cancer, gastrointestinal disease, neuroscience, advanced surgery and high-technology medical imaging. The facility will feature 54 rooms including specialty and hybrid operating rooms, general procedure rooms, gastrointestinal rooms, bronchoscopy rooms, ERCP rooms, and interventional radiology procedure rooms. RTKL is ensuring that each department within the hospital pavilion understands how the other will use the integrated systems that the firm installs, and how the systems will interact. Don Conrad is acting as RTKL’s project manager at the site.
DALLAS — Addison, Texas-based MedCapital Group has provided $8.58 million in non-recourse financing for the acquisition and renovation of a 75,000-square-foot, inpatient behavioral health center located in North Texas. The borrower is a national behavioral healthcare developer and management company. Terms of the financing were not disclosed.
WAUCHULA, FLA. — Fort Myers, Fla.-based Stevens Construction recently finished a renovation of the 5,350-square-foot Florida Hospital Heartland Division Emergency Room, located at 533 W. Carlton St. in Wauchula. The three-phase project, designed by Burt Hill/Pollock Kreig Architects, included a pharmacy remodel, an emergency room reconfiguration and the addition of a nurse’s station. Terry Tjelmeland, Mike Bussiere and Jackie Barnett made up the construction team.
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS — Groundbreaking has occurred for the $35 million expansion and renovation of Central Texas Medical Center in San Marcos. Designed by Arlington, Texas-based Ascension Group Architects, the project will include more than 64,000 square feet of construction, including a childbirth center, a Level II neonatal critical care unit and a 22-bed obstetrics unit. The project will also include the expansion of the hospital’s surgical suite, as well as a new nursing unit. Completion is scheduled for 2010.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Eckman/Suffolk, a joint venture between Bedford, N.H.-based Eckman Construction Co. and Boston-based Suffolk Construction Co., has been selected to construct Elliot at River’s Edge, an $87 million ambulatory care center located on the former Jac Pac site off Queen City Avenue in Manchester. Construction will consist of a four-story, 236,000-square-foot facility and an 800-space parking garage. The project will include facilities for urgent care, diagnostic imaging, breast health, endoscopy, pain management, physical rehabilitation, pulmonary rehabilitation, laboratory services and durable medical equipment, as well as the Elliot 1-day Surgery Center. Demolition and site preparation are expected to begin in October, with vertical construction scheduled to commence in January 2009. The hospital is slated to open in 2010. It is being developed by Elliot Health System and The Anagnost Companies. The Elliot at River’s Edge is part of a 17-acre project that will also include a medical office, retail and residential components.
BRECKSVILLE, OHIO — The former Pilgrim Inn of Brecksville has been acquired by Brecksville Healthcare Holdings LLC. Pending voter approval of a planned development overlay agreement in November, the property will be converted into an 80-bed skilled nursing facility. The 2.8-acre hotel parcel was acquired for $1.15 million. David Kaplan of NAI Cummins represented the buyer; Farley Helms of Colliers Turley Martin Tucker represented the seller in the transaction. If the plans are approved, the new facility could open as early as fall 2009.
SUFFOLK, VA. — Tri-City Development Co. recently sold the 123,050-sqaure-foot Bon Secours Health Center at Harbour View, located on Harbour View Boulevard in Suffolk, to Montecito Medical Investment Co. for $33 million. The buyer was represented by Scott Henley and Alex Evans of Coldwell Banker Commercial Benchmark’s Jacksonville, Fla., office. Tri-City Development was represented in-house.
NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based Swanke Hayden Connell Architects has been selected by the Department of Design and Construction for the City of New York to provide design services for the rehabilitation of three New York City health centers. The facilities include Astoria District Health Center, located in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens; Bedford District Health Center, located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn; and Fort Green Health Clinic, also located in Brooklyn. Construction will consist of the rehabilitation of the exterior building envelopes, and ADA accessibility upgrades. Construction is underway, with completion scheduled for October.
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. — Poskanzer Scott Architects has completed the architectural and interior design work for an 8,000-square-foot oncology center for Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood. The new center is located on the first floor of the Russell and Angelica Berrie Center for Humanistic Care. It includes a reception area, waiting room, doctor’s offices, a work area, nurse stations and laboratory facilities. The oncology center is the first phase of two new facilities Poskanzer Scott is designing for the hospital.