NorthBay Medical Center to get new hospital wing

NorthBay Healthcare has begun construction on a new three-story, 77,000-square-foot hospital wing at its Fairfield location. The construction is part of a four-year modernization project at NorthBay Medical Center.

The new wing will include six new state-of-the-art operating rooms, two new cardiac catheterization labs, a modern cafeteria with indoor and outdoor seating, nutrition services, diagnostic imaging and supply rooms. Also included are 22 new “patient rooms of the future” featuring the latest technology in health care, and 16 more post-acute care beds.

As part of the project, a new Welcome Pavilion has already been completed, designed with color, artwork and furnishing to provide a calm and relaxing patient experience. It features an electronic way-finding kiosk to help patients navigate through the medical center, a private patient registration area and a new NorthBay Guild Gift Shop.

“This pavilion is simply a harbinger of the new hospital that NorthBay Medical Center will become in the next few years as we invest nearly $200 million to bring more advanced medicine to the Fairfield and Suisun City communities,” said Konard Jones, president of NorthBay Healthcare Group and future CEO of the organization.

Work is now underway transforming the old hospital lobby into a 7,000-square-feet expansion of the Emergency Department, which will open in early 2019. The addition will add 10 new treatment bays to the facility, for a total of 26.

Architect for the project is Ratcliff Architects of Emeryville and contractor is DPR Construction of Sacramento.