Capital Regional Medical Center Expansion

[quote="bighardrivesrule"] Just my 2 cents I bet the next thing they build at CRMC is some sort of parking deck. Especially with the new office tower going up there parking lot now gets pretty crowded. [/quote]

[quote="td*"] Its to bad, that it never was built. [/quote]

[quote="florida"] Because we had a number of public disputes involving the proposed two hotels for that site within the past few years. I wrote about it: [url=http://urbantallahassee.com/v4/index.php/news-topmenu-30/construction-development/764-commission-orders-compromise-on-metropolitan-corporate-center-pud:3inwmde2]Commission orders compromise on Metropolitan Corporate Center PUD[/url:3inwmde2] [url=http://urbantallahassee.com/v4/index.php/news-topmenu-30/construction-development/762-hyatt-hotels-eyes-metropolitan-corporate-center:3inwmde2]Hyatt Hotels Eyes Metropolitan Corporate Center[/url:3inwmde2] [/quote]

[quote="td*"] I emailed them, I emailed hyatt place thinking we may have a better shot with them. So we can see. How do you know they are already looking? [/quote]

[quote="florida"] You don't have to e-mail them. They're already looking. [/quote]

[quote="td*"] Thats what i was thinking of actually flo. EMAIL HYATT! [/quote]

[quote="florida"] [quote="TD*":30abhfnn]Speaking of this.... Is my tasty 3 story killearn branch emergency hospital almost open? When this opens that whole plaza will shoot up with high rises.[/quote:30abhfnn] No it won't! You have got to be feasible and realistic with these predictions! I can see another low-mid rise office building similar to the two already there, and MAYBE a mid-rise business class hotel (Hyatt Place, Aloft, or indigo). [/quote]

[quote="td*"] Speaking of this.... Is my tasty 3 story killearn branch emergency hospital almost open? When this opens that whole plaza will shoot up with high rises. [/quote]

[quote="florida"] The only thing that would make this better to me would to hear they want to build this downtown at the corner of Tennessee and Monroe opposite of the Gateway. They could take that parcel as well as the parcel downhill to Adams Street and go as far north as the Central Fire Station. The EMS operations, fire station, and a 6-story hospital facility there would be bossy!! [/quote]

[quote="td*"] Yea! Go Tally Go [/quote]

[quote="bighardrivesrule"] Looks like Capital Regional wants to grow some more. Just saw this on the cities growth management site.[url:gqff54pr]http://talgov.com/Uploads/Public/Documents/growth/pdf/agendas/04-25-13-type-a.pdf[/url:gqff54pr] 6 Story office building would rock! [/quote]

[quote="tallynoles"] Capital Regional Medical Center officially opened Wednesday the two new floors it has added in a $15-million expansion project, the latest in a series of efforts to address local health-care services demand.The year-long project resulted in the main building rising from six stories tall to eight. Brian Cook, the hospital’s president and CEO, said the expansion will eventually require 100 more employees.“With the structural addition of the seventh and eighth floors and the addition of 45,000 square feet and the opening of the new eighth-floor, 44-bed telemetry unit ... we are very, very excited to now be 242 all-private rooms,” Cook said. The project prepares the medical center for health-care demand that Cook said is already evident in emergency-room visits. In 2003, CRMC had 33,000 ER visits. In 2012, that figure was 89,000.Dr. Jack Atwater, the hospital’s chief of staff, told the gathering at the morning ribbon cutting that the project increased CRMC’s capacity for patient service, specifically nursing care.“We talk about what it means to put another floor on a hospital, but what you’re really doing is you’re not adding rooms. You are adding nursing care,” Atwater said, calling that aspect of delivery the “fundamental competency” of the hospital. The addition of the space means the capacity to offer 22 percent more skilled nursing care, he said.The patient rooms incorporate the latest in ergonomic design, where pieces of medical equipment, computer workstations and the like are recessed in the walls or fold into cabinets, freeing up floor space.The rooms are equipped with a monitoring system that can communicate more information to the nurses’ station about each patient and what care or precautions they require. Each nurse wears a key tag that the system reads when he or she enters the room to attend to a patient.Dr. Richard Thacker, chairman of the hospital’s board of trustees, said adding more space is only part of meeting demand for services.“I believe that there’s a lot of truth to that — ‘build it and they will come,’ ” Thacker said in his remarks. “But what’s really going to make the difference is the people inside this building and the people up on those floors, and that starts not just with your administration and your team, but with the physicians that you see on the floors ... and the team behind the scenes.”“That’s what makes a difference,” he added. Capital Regional Medical Center, which has been owned by hospital company HCA since 1980, underwent a major expansion that was completed in 2003.Since then, the hospital has added the Gadsden Memorial Campus in Quincy, expanded the emergency department at the main campus in Tallahassee, and has added a pediatric ER, bigger medical oncology unit, expanded labor-and-delivery area, and an inpatient pediatric unit.Thacker said the ultimate measure of a hospital’s success is patients’ satisfaction with medical outcomes and their willingness to use the facility again.“That’s going to be the true test and I think that we have been passing that test for years, in that folks have continued to come back or else we wouldn’t be able to expand and grow like we have,” Thacker said.General contractor Skanska was in charge of the project. The company and its subcontractors built the shell of the two extra floors, then used a prefabrication method for individual rooms, Cook said. As each room was finished with its framing, rough plumbing and electrical , the unit was lifted into place with a crane. Cook said the modular method shortened the construction time by 2.5 months.He praised the efforts of Ralph Waccary, director of plant operations, and his staff for a smooth process.“It is not easy to undergo a construction project and keep a health-care facility operating 24/7 with the amount of electrical shutdowns, water shutdowns, the noise, the dust and so forth,” Cook said. “These guys really carried the load for us, making sure our patient-care services stayed safe and we were able to meet the needs of the community.” [/quote]

[quote="td*"] Pretty nice. i like Height [/quote]

[quote="td*"] Pretty cool [/quote]