Dive brief:
- Turner Construction and Pike Construction Services broke ground on a $650 million hospital expansion project in Rochester, New York, it said. a September 12 press release.
- Renovations and additions to Strong Memorial Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center will triple the size of the facility’s emergency department while adding 650,000 square feet of space and a new nine-story patient tower.
- The construction represents the largest capital project in the university’s history and received a boost from New York State program for the transformation of health facilities, which contributed a $50 million grant. Another $1 million comes from federal funding.
Diving knowledge:
The project innovation follows Turner and Pike’s demolition work in March that removed 300 tons of material from a set of brick structures that stood just west of the current emergency department building.
The ER expansion and new tower will help address chronic bed shortages and emergency department overcrowding issues the community has faced for years, which were further exacerbated during the pandemic of COVID-19. according to the university.
The project will incorporate more than 200 patient examination, treatment and observation stations by phase in the emergency department and the hospital’s Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergencies Program. In total, it will expand the footprint in these areas from 32,000 to 120,000 square feet.
The nine-story inpatient bed tower will include more than 100 private inpatient rooms, as well as additional floors for future operating rooms and treatment services for the emergency department.
Based in New York City Turner recently completed another healthcare project, a 12,000-square-foot renovation of MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center’s behavioral health unit in Clinton. Pike Construction Services has a long history in the Western New York region since its founding in Rochester in 1873.
The expansion is scheduled to be completed in 2027.
