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The new Palomar Medical Center: A Look Ahead

The new Palomar Medical Center – Proposed Campus
(450 beds):
Hospital - 750,000 sq. ft.

  • 168 Acuity Adaptable beds
  • 192 Med/Surg beds
  • 12 Operating Rooms 
  • 6 Cath. Labs. / Interventional
  • Radiology Rooms
  • 48 E.D. Exam/Tx + 2 Trauma Rooms
  • 17 Imaging Rooms 

Three-month look ahead

 

  • Activities through 2007
    • Rock crushing, blasting of rock
    • Selection of concrete contractor
    • Detailing for foundations (reinforcing steel, rock anchors and anchor bolts)
    • Steel mill order
    • Complete hospital basement excavation
    • MEP systems fully coordinated in BIM model (Basement through Level 3)
       

Entire project look ahead

 

  • Major Milestones
    • Steel erection July 2008
    • MEP overhead rough-in December 2008
    • Drywall (non-priority) begins April 2009
    • Steel topping off July 2009
    • Tower roof complete March 2010
    • Tower weather-tight March 2010
    • Building energized March 2010
      Elevators ready to use April 2010
    • Central plant ready to occupy Fall 2010
    • Hospital ready to occupy early 2012


Womens & Childrens Hospital –150,000 sq. ft.
(date of project and build to be determined)

  • 20 LDR / Ante-Partum Rooms
  • 44 Post-Partum Beds
  • 16 Pediatric Beds
  • 16 NICU Beds
  • 3 Operating Rooms