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Final Steel Beam Raised on Sutter Medical Foundation Building as Midtown Project Takes Shape 11-09-2007
SACRAMENTO - Celebrating a significant milestone in the midtown expansion of Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, Mayor Heather Fargo gave the signal to raise and install the final steel support for the 210,000-square-foot Sutter Medical Foundation Building today during a traditional "topping-out" ceremony at 28th and L streets.
The ceremony was led by the builder, Turner Construction Co., and Sutter Medical Center to thank the steel workers for their hard work and safe, efficient job, and to celebrate the progress to date on the seven-block medical campus project that includes state-of-the-art health care facilities, restaurants, retails shops and residential housing.
"Sutter planted its roots in this very neighborhood 84 years ago," Mayor Fargo said. "Today, Sutter continues to invest in our community with a model urban in-fill project that is destined to be the medical community of the future and a model for other health systems."
In addition to the Sutter Medical Foundation Building and the new Anderson Lucchetti Women's and Children's Center, the project also includes comprehensive renovation of the Sutter Cancer Center and Sutter General Hospital, the new Ose Adams Medical Pavilion.
The Sutter Medical Foundation Building will house 39 doctors' offices, 93 exam rooms, 35 procedure rooms, six outpatient operating rooms and 13 outpatient imaging rooms, along with endoscopy and interventional radiology services. There are four floors plus two parking levels in the basement, which also houses the Energy Center for the entire SMCS campus. Completion of the SMF Building is slated for fall 2008.
"The medical community of the future is beginning to take shape, and we are very excited to reach this milestone," said Tom Gagen, SMCS's CEO. "With this SMF Building, we are able to build even more office space for our physicians and specialists adjacent to our acute-care services, making it very convenient and efficient for patients and clinicians alike. Improving the quality of your health care and making it more efficient and accessible is what this new health care center is all about."
The medical complex is designed as a regional medical facility to meet Sacramento's health care needs for the next 50 years, and serve the needs of patients in Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Yolo counties as well as patients across 27 counties in Northern California and western Nevada. The new Anderson Lucchetti Women's and Children's Center, named in honor of the family of the late Fred Anderson, founder of Pacific Coast Building Products Inc., will offer the highest level of neonatal and pediatric intensive care and other services currently provided at Sutter Memorial Hospital two miles away. The remodeled Sutter General Hospital will house new space for cardiac, orthopedic, spine, neuroscience, cancer, transplant and medical/surgical services. At the completion of the medical campus in early 2011, Sutter General will be renamed the Ose Adams Medical Pavilion in honor of the role Enlow and Melena Adams Ose have played in leading community support for the project.
Additional features of this urban in-fill project include 32 new Brownstone-style residential units; neighborhood-serving retail, restaurants and commercial space; a community parking garage; a new theater complex for the B Street Theatre and the Children's Theatre of California; and partnership facility-sharing relationships with Trinity Cathedral and other project partners.
Sutter Medical Foundation, begun in 1992, is a network of physicians and ambulatory care services in the Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region. The SMF Building will house physicians in the network as well as the ambulatory surgery center.
"Like never before, the trend is to perform more outpatient surgeries outside the walls of the hospital," said Tom Blinn, CEO of Sutter Medical Foundation. "In ambulatory settings we have the opportunity to provide high-quality, convenient, lower-cost surgical care to our patients who for many surgical procedures don't need to enter the hospital."
Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, is affiliated with Sutter Health, a not-for-profit, community-based health system located throughout Northern California. For more information on Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, visit www.suttermedicalcenter.org.
The ceremony was led by the builder, Turner Construction Co., and Sutter Medical Center to thank the steel workers for their hard work and safe, efficient job, and to celebrate the progress to date on the seven-block medical campus project that includes state-of-the-art health care facilities, restaurants, retails shops and residential housing.
"Sutter planted its roots in this very neighborhood 84 years ago," Mayor Fargo said. "Today, Sutter continues to invest in our community with a model urban in-fill project that is destined to be the medical community of the future and a model for other health systems."
In addition to the Sutter Medical Foundation Building and the new Anderson Lucchetti Women's and Children's Center, the project also includes comprehensive renovation of the Sutter Cancer Center and Sutter General Hospital, the new Ose Adams Medical Pavilion.
The Sutter Medical Foundation Building will house 39 doctors' offices, 93 exam rooms, 35 procedure rooms, six outpatient operating rooms and 13 outpatient imaging rooms, along with endoscopy and interventional radiology services. There are four floors plus two parking levels in the basement, which also houses the Energy Center for the entire SMCS campus. Completion of the SMF Building is slated for fall 2008.
"The medical community of the future is beginning to take shape, and we are very excited to reach this milestone," said Tom Gagen, SMCS's CEO. "With this SMF Building, we are able to build even more office space for our physicians and specialists adjacent to our acute-care services, making it very convenient and efficient for patients and clinicians alike. Improving the quality of your health care and making it more efficient and accessible is what this new health care center is all about."
The medical complex is designed as a regional medical facility to meet Sacramento's health care needs for the next 50 years, and serve the needs of patients in Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Yolo counties as well as patients across 27 counties in Northern California and western Nevada. The new Anderson Lucchetti Women's and Children's Center, named in honor of the family of the late Fred Anderson, founder of Pacific Coast Building Products Inc., will offer the highest level of neonatal and pediatric intensive care and other services currently provided at Sutter Memorial Hospital two miles away. The remodeled Sutter General Hospital will house new space for cardiac, orthopedic, spine, neuroscience, cancer, transplant and medical/surgical services. At the completion of the medical campus in early 2011, Sutter General will be renamed the Ose Adams Medical Pavilion in honor of the role Enlow and Melena Adams Ose have played in leading community support for the project.
Additional features of this urban in-fill project include 32 new Brownstone-style residential units; neighborhood-serving retail, restaurants and commercial space; a community parking garage; a new theater complex for the B Street Theatre and the Children's Theatre of California; and partnership facility-sharing relationships with Trinity Cathedral and other project partners.
Sutter Medical Foundation, begun in 1992, is a network of physicians and ambulatory care services in the Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region. The SMF Building will house physicians in the network as well as the ambulatory surgery center.
"Like never before, the trend is to perform more outpatient surgeries outside the walls of the hospital," said Tom Blinn, CEO of Sutter Medical Foundation. "In ambulatory settings we have the opportunity to provide high-quality, convenient, lower-cost surgical care to our patients who for many surgical procedures don't need to enter the hospital."
Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, is affiliated with Sutter Health, a not-for-profit, community-based health system located throughout Northern California. For more information on Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, visit www.suttermedicalcenter.org.