Good Samaritan Moves to Stage II of $30M Expansion

To prepare the site for the addition, Chuck Levkulich, Skanska's project manager, tells GlobeSt.com, "We had to remove 18,000 cu. ft. of rock. We developed a special code, `code green,' to alert hospital staff in general and surgeons in particular prior to each blast." Clearing the site took nearly three months. Nevertheless, he says, the addition was completed "on time and within budget."

Although the renovated area is small, Levkulich says it will be done in 10 separate phases before completion in April 2006. That is because "each small section has to be completely secured to prevent contamination between sections and to other areas of the hospital while we work."

The addition reorients the entire building and includes a new main entrance and lobby, registration area and nursing-support areas. It also replaces six existing operating rooms and creates 11 new ones along with two new cardiac catheterization labs, an emergency department, an 18-bed cardiovascular and intensive-care unit, a 32-bed medical and surgery unit and pre-op and post-op units of 14 beds each.