McCANDLESS, PA-The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has broken ground on a seven-story, 188,000-sf addition to its UPMC Passavant campus here. The construction cost is $100 million and the project is expected to reach completion in mid-2009.
The campus is upgrading to provide more of the services offered at UPMC's main campus in Oakland, according to a spokesman. They include private rooms, valet parking, and concierge and room services. All rooms will have windows, and the new building will add 88 beds, taking the hospital's total to 399.
Glass-enclosed walkways on each floor will connect the addition with the existing hospital. The main entrance will be reconfigured around the existing glass rotunda. Utilizing an airport concept of separating arrivals and departures, arriving patients will enter at the front of the hospital and discharged patients will leave through a separate dedicated area. A portion of the roof will contain green space, benches and trees for patients and families.
The addition will also triple the cancer center's space, adding 27,000 sf, and double the current emergency department by adding 21,000 sf. Recovery room space will also be expanded, and a blood bank, pharmacy and pathology labs will be added along with an increased number of surgical rooms.
In the past four years, UPMC Passavant admissions in this location have increased 37%; emergency room visits have grown 74%; surgeries rose by 80%, and outpatient visits increased 56%. “By expanding the services that are offered at UPMC Passavant, the hospital will be better able to meet the increasing needs of residents living north of the city of Pittsburgh as those communities continue to grow,” says Elizabeth Concordia, SVP of UPMC academic and community hospitals, in a statement.
Pittsburgh-based UPMC operates more than a dozen specialty, regional and community hospitals, which include this UPMC Passavant and UPMC Passavant Cranberry in Cranberry Township.
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