Group Health Spending $110M on New Facility

BELLEVUE, WA-Group Health Cooperative is planning to spend $110 million on a new specialty center at the Overlake Hospital Medical Center campus here that will house outpatient and ambulatory specialty services, including ambulatory surgery, urgent care and radiology.

The new 255,000-sf building will be visible from Interstate 405, as will Group Health’s name and logo. The center is scheduled for completion in 2007. Until then, Seattle-based Group Health says it will continue operating its Eastside Hospital in Redmond, which is 30 years old and suffering from a drop in patient volume.

In conjunction with the new center development, Overlake, also a nonprofit organization, is moving forward with a new 80-bed patient tower that will sit next to Group Health’s new facility that will serve in-patients for both organizations. It, too, is scheduled for completion in 2007.