Located at Airline Highway and Pecue Lane in Baton Rouge, the new hospital campus is about five miles from the current Woman’s Hospital campus, which will be vacated when the new hospital and MOB are completed.

The new MOB will be physically connected to Woman’s Hospital and will house a comprehensive breast center, a maternal-fetal medicine center, infrastructure for an ambulatory surgery center, retail space and other potential outpatient services. It is expected to be completed in late 2012.

“We hope to complete the MOB in advance of the hospital’s opening,” Lillibridge says.

The new five-story hospital, which sits on 85 acres, broke ground in June 2008. No completion date has been announced. The 520,000-square-foot building increases inpatient adult rooms from 139 to 176, NICU beds from 82 to 96 and labor and delivery rooms from 25 to 28.

In addition to the hospital and the MOB, the campus will also house a 69,000-square-foot support services building and a 23,000-square-foot central energy plant building. The campus will also include a 1.25-mile walking trail around a lake and cafeteria facilities with covered outdoor dining alongside a beautiful waterfront plaza

Woman's Hospital selected Dallas-based HKS Inc. to design the facility in partnership with Ford|Dickinson AAC of Baton Rouge