Upper campus is constantly under construction.
The Eccles Critical Care Pavilion, located in the north wing of University Hospital, opened to the public last April. It was the first of six major construction projects to be completed in the Health Sciences area.
The new pavilion features an improved emergency room, intensive care unit and a same-day or short-stay surgery center.
Progress for the other five projects is underway.
On schedule to open next summer, the Huntsman Cancer Research Hospital will be located east of University Hospital, adjacent to the Huntsman Cancer Institute.
The $100 million-project will create a hospital specifically designed for cancer treatment.
The building’s six floors will include 50 inpatient beds, four surgical suites, a pharmacy, a state-of-the-art diagnostic laboratory, 32 outpatient exam rooms and facilities for radiation therapy.
The most recent groundbreaking was for the Orthopedic Surgery Center Institute in Research Park, located to the southeast of campus.
The $26 million, 100,000 square-foot, three level facility will incorporate the eight major orthopedic subspecialties, including foot and ankle, hand and sports medicine.
It is expected to be completed in the fall of 2004 and also will not affect campus traffic or parking.
Construction on the $25 million medical science building began recently. It will be a six-level building with five full lab floors and an underground level.
It is scheduled to be completed by March 2005.
On May 22, construction began for the state-funded $40 million, five-and-a-half-level building, which will feature cutting-edge computer technology in the classrooms as well as student lounges.
The building is also scheduled for completion in the spring of 2005.
The final planned construction project, Moran II, has not yet broken ground for construction, although a site has been selected to the south of Primary Children’s Hospital.
While these five buildings are the only projects that have been announced through 2006, a new School of Medicine is in the works.