San Diego-based health network Scripps Health opened the doors to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla’s new North Tower in La Jolla, California, the company announced on June 2.
A construction team of St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Cos. and Dallas-based Jacobs built the $664 million structure across eight years of planning and work. Minneapolis-based HGA served as the architect.
The eight-floor, 420,000-square-foot inpatient building features comprehensive mother-baby services, advanced technology operating rooms and private patient rooms, according to the news release. More than 3,200 babies are delivered at the hospital each year.
Some of the building’s features include:
- Eighteen private labor and delivery rooms across three floors, five of which are antepartum rooms.
- Two cesarean section operating rooms.
- Twenty-four neonatal intensive care unit NICU beds.
- Thirty-eight post-partum beds.
With the opening, the hospital’s bed count now totals 495 licensed to Scripps and another 36 neonatal intensive care beds licensed to Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego. The North Tower also houses inpatient services for cancer, orthopedics, neurology, stroke, spine and trauma, according to the news release.
Other floors of the hospital feature 96 adult medical/surgical beds, 12 additional medical/surgical beds that can be used as adult ICU beds when needed, nine operating rooms — two of which feature robotic surgery equipment, 40 pre- and post-surgery beds and 12 observational beds. The lower floor includes an enhanced imaging center and three interventional radiology suites.
“The opening of the North Tower ensures that those infants and their mothers will continue to receive the very best care possible in a place that was built with the future in mind, allowing for services and technology to evolve as medicine continues to advance,” said Dr. Ronald Salzetti, department chair of obstetrics and gynecology for Scripps Clinic, in the news release.
This is at least the second healthcare project that McCarthy and Jacobs have worked on together that celebrated a milestone in June. The pair also completed construction on the $373 million Children’s Hospital of Orange County’s Southwest Tower in Orange, California, according to a June 16 news release from CannonDesign, the New York City-based engineer on the project.
