CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center (HPMC) has broken ground on a new patient care tower designed to further meet the community’s needs while assuring that Hollywood’s first medical facility meets all current state seismic requirements.
“The modernized campus will provide the healing environment and accessible care that our patients deserve while furnishing our medical staff and other clinicians with the tools they need — including the DaVinci Robotic Surgical System — to deliver the highest-quality medical care,” said Robert Allen, HPMC president and CEO.
The new 174,954-square-foot acute care services replacement hospital building will replace the existing building at an estimated cost of $291 million. The construction represents the final portion of a three-phase, $350 million campus upgrade, $300 million of which is being funded through a federal government loan and financial institutions in recognition of the fact that this construction project is meaningful toward enhancing the public healthcare needs of the surrounding community.
The upgrade of the hospital’s Doctors Tower and South Wing began in October 2016 and is expected to be completed by the end of this year. The hospital’s new parking structure broke ground in May 2017 and is expected to be completed later this year as well.
Included in the new patient tower will be a new and expanded emergency department with 20 exam rooms, including a private exam room for women’s services, and more than 26,000 square feet of space — double in size from the current emergency department. The new department will also include a chest pain observation area and detox area.
Featured in the tower will be a new maternity and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with 13 labor/delivery/recovery rooms, three surgical suites and 19 NICU beds, making it one of the largest birthing departments in Los Angeles. The tower will also include a new medical/surgical unit with all-private rooms and a floor offering seven operating rooms, 20 pre-operative and recovery beds, a cardiac catheterization laboratory, and an electrophysiology laboratory.
The emergency department portion of the project is targeted for 2020 occupancy as other project elements continue to completion. Also anticipated for a 2020 occupancy is a new dietary department, which will be located on the subterranean level of the patient tower along with a mechanical room and an IT room.
It strengthens structural requirements at acute care medical centers and mandates that all hospitals comply with the regulations by 2030. The ultimate public safety benefit of the act is to have general acute care hospital buildings that not only are capable of sustaining a seismic event, but are also capable of continued operation and provision of acute care medical services after the event.
