Marking what hospital officials are calling the most ambitious redevelopment in its 117-year history ? and one of the largest single health care construction projects in the United States ? Johns Hopkins Medicine unveiled details Monday about its new East Baltimore Medical Campus.
“Medical miracles cannot aspire in buildings built for 19th-century medicine,” said William R. Brody, president of The Johns Hopkins University. “These buildings will be the proving ground for a new era of discovery.”
Hospital officials, in a ceremony attended by Maryland first lady Kendel Ehrlich and House of Delegates Speaker Michael Busch, outlined plans for two new clinical towers ? the centerpiece of the $1.2 billion redevelopment project.
The project includes replacing and outdated facilities with a children?s hospital tower that will serve as the new home of The Johns Hopkins Children?s Center and a cardiovascular and critical care tower for adults. The project will also include support facilities. The towers, totaling 1,473,000 square feet, are expected to be completed in 2009.
Hopkins officials said the new towers are also needed to house additional research and clinical space.
“Johns Hopkins University is the No. 1 medical institution in America for the last 15 years,” Busch said. “And it?s the largest employer in the state with 50,000 employees.”
The new buildings will feature separate adult and children?s emergency entrances, large lobbies and waiting rooms with small private alcoves to allow medical staff to privately meet with families, and decentralized workstations to keep nurses close to patients.
“We?ve got a long way to go ? but the hardest steps are actually behind us,” said Edward D. Miller, dean of medical faculty and chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Each patient room will have a high-resolution digital display screen that brings diagnostic images, lab data and patient records right to the patient?s bedside.
Construction of an adjacent 2,600-space parking garage is complete and a new energy plant and loading dock is nearing completion. The new garage allowed for the former Broadway Garage to be razed, making room for the new clinical buildings.
The buildings will be located adjacent to the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building at the northern front of Orleans Street.
Construction sites
Other major Hopkins projects include:
» The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building ? $150 million
» The Bunting Family and Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Family Cancer Research Building ? $59 million
» The Second Cancer Research Building ? $80.4 million
The Broadway Research Building ? $140 million
