Mercyhealth breaks ground on $485 million women's hospital, specialty clinics project
The seven-story, 451,000-square-foot hospital, and the five-story, 81,500 square foot clinic will be built simultaneously, the system says.
Builder rendering of new hospital and specialty clinic.
Mercyhealth broke ground earlier this week on a large, $485 million expansion project that will yield a new specialty women's and children's hospital and multispecialty clinic building in Rockford, Illinois. Both facilities are scheduled for completion in early 2019.
The seven-story, 451,000-square-foot hospital, and the five-story, 81,500 square foot clinic will be built simultaneously. The new hospital will focus on specialty women's and children's medical services, intensive care for all ages, cardiac center and the area's only Level 1 trauma center. The multispecialty clinic will house labs, physical therapy and other outpatient services as well as administrative offices.
The new medical campus is located about 9 miles east of Mercyhealth's current Rockford hospital, which will continue to offer emergency care, surgical services, outpatient behavioral health services and a cancer clinic.
Mercyhealth's has chosen Mortenson Construction as their builder.
Larry Arndt, Mortenson's healthcare general manager, who is leading the project, said in a statement that the firm will be employing a range of construction technologies and techniques, including prefabrication and modular construction, to meet the ambitious building schedule.
Mortenson's Chicago office, which recently built the new 296-bed Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, Illinois, and led a joint venture partnership to build the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, will be the construction manager, working closely with architect and engineer AECOM.
Nationally, Mortenson has completed $4.9 billion in healthcare work, representing nearly 400 facilities and 17.5 million square feet, over the past decade.
Mercyhealth is a nonprofit, multi-regional health system comprised of five hospitals, a wholly owned insurance company, more than 867 physicians (561 employed physicians), and 80 outpatient clinics and other service sites.
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