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A joint venture broke ground last week on Henry Ford Health’s $2.2 billion hospital expansion project in Detroit, which will create a new state-of-the-art hospital on the same block where the 110-story structure opened years, according to a news release of the health network.
The JV consists of Southfield, Mich.-based Barton Malow and New York City-based Turner Construction along with local company Dixon Inc., according to Barton Malow. The team will add the new 1.2 million-square-foot hospital on the south side of West Grand Boulevard, directly across the street from the legacy campus, according to Henry Ford Health. The facility will also include a 20-story hospital tower.
The project includes expanding the emergency department to 75,000 square feet, more than doubling its size, according to the release. Other additions include 28 new operating theaters capable of handling complex surgical cases, from transplants to brain surgery, and five floors of specialized ICU rooms, from cardiovascular to neurological.
“Our vision: to build the healthcare campus of the future, a place where people from the street or around the world can come to receive the best care in the best facilities, is one that we have been cultivating for decades,” said Bob Riney, CEO of Henry Ford Health, in the statement.
In addition to the medical upgrades, the construction team will also build a 185,000-square-foot shared services building, which will house the hospital’s kitchen and loading dock; a new 1,500-space parking structure; and a 46,000-square-foot central energy center, which will heat and cool the new facilities using a hot and chilled water pump system, according to the health network.
With the energy center, the hospital says it will eliminate its need for natural gas and help make the facility one of the largest all-electric hospitals in the country.
The new hospital is expected to open its doors in 2029, according to the statement.
