San Diego-based Scripps Health announced its Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas (Calif.) has broken ground on a critical care facility that is part of the hospital's $94 million second phase of expansion.
The first floor of the Critical Care Building will include a 27-bed emergency department, which will be more than twice the size of the hospital's current 12-bed ED. The second floor will house 36 medical-surgical inpatient beds, which will increase the number of medical-surgical beds by 43 percent.
The 61,643-square-foot facility will help the hospital meet a more than 20 percent increase in annual patient visits in the past decade. In the same amount of time, annual ED visits have increased by more than 50 percent, according to the release. The building is expected to open by early summer 2014.
The second phase of expansion will also add a central energy plant and more than $4 million in public infrastructure improvements. The first phase included a new parking structure.
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The first floor of the Critical Care Building will include a 27-bed emergency department, which will be more than twice the size of the hospital's current 12-bed ED. The second floor will house 36 medical-surgical inpatient beds, which will increase the number of medical-surgical beds by 43 percent.
The 61,643-square-foot facility will help the hospital meet a more than 20 percent increase in annual patient visits in the past decade. In the same amount of time, annual ED visits have increased by more than 50 percent, according to the release. The building is expected to open by early summer 2014.
The second phase of expansion will also add a central energy plant and more than $4 million in public infrastructure improvements. The first phase included a new parking structure.
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