Orthopedics Departments Combine in One Convenient Location.
Buildings Designed with Patient Experience in Mind.
For everyone at PAMF Santa Cruz, the noise of a busy construction site in the neighborhood is music to their ears. The sight and sound of workers in hard hats and enormous cranes lowering concrete walls into place means that the much-anticipated new medical building on Chanticleer Avenue is now under construction.
“All the doctors and staff at PAMF Santa Cruz are very excited that the new medical building is finally becoming a reality,” says Tom Hart, PAMF Santa Cruz’s VP of strategy and financial planning. “The new facility will enable us to combine two Orthopedics Departments that are currently housed in separate buildings in one convenient location for our patients.”
The new almost 20,000 square foot, two story facility will house Orthopedics and Podiatric Medicine on the first floor and Obstetrics and Gynecology on the second floor and plans to open its doors to patients in summer 2011. The building is located at 2907 Chanticleer Avenue across the street from Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center (SMSC).
250-ton crane lowers concrete wall weighing 45 tons into place
PAMF designs its medical centers to improve patient experience and care. “Many months of careful planning have gone into this project,” says Hart. “A project advisory team of doctors and support staff provided valuable input to make sure that the building is designed with all our patients’ needs in mind.”
In early 2009, the state of the economy necessitated that Sutter Health, with which the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) is affiliated, freeze virtually all new capital spending within the organization. As the economic climate has begun to improve, Sutter Health approved the construction of this clinic which will serve the Santa Cruz community.
“It’s nice to have it cut loose in this economy,” said Jared Bogaard of Bogard Construction, estimating there will be 200 to 300 workers on site at the peak of the project.
The facility is being designed with a Lean approach that involves using the most efficient and cost-effective ways to get the job done, explains Hart. The building has also been reviewed under PG&E’s “Savings by Design” program for new energy-efficient facilities and is projected to use 25 percent less energy than a facility built using traditional methods.
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