University of Utah Hospital opens $200M expansion
The University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics opened a new patient care pavilion and $200 million expansion project this week.
The expansion substantially increases the number of private patient rooms at the University of Utah Hospital, while improving access and parking. The health system expanded the hospital lobby, added 100 private patient rooms, and an additional 250 parking spaces.
"This expansion has always been about providing the best space for our patients to receive care and for our staff to work in," said David Entwistle, chief executive officer of University Hospitals & Clinics. "The University is known for its excellent patient care, teaching, and leading-edge research, and now we have the facility to match those skills."
The first phase of the construction project, completed in 2003, included the Eccles Critical Care Pavilion, which greatly enlarged the hospital's emergency, surgical intensive care, short-stay and postoperative care facilities, in addition to providing new surgical suites.
The second phase of construction, completed this month, features a two-story addition to the Critical Care Pavilion, a four-story addition to the helipad parking terrace, and the new seven-story (five stories above ground, two below) Patient Care Pavilion, which also will be occupied by women's and children's, cardiovascular, and neuroscience services.
Entwhistle said hospital patients would be moved to these new areas beginning in August. Once the Patient Care Pavilion is occupied, the semi-private rooms in the original hospital will be remodeled into private rooms.
