North Bay Business Journal

From Marin to Mendocino, current hospital projects represent at least $550 million worth of combined construction spending.

And it’s a number that will double if and when one of the largest projects — the $500 million rebuild of Marin General Hospital — gets off the ground.

GREENBRAE — Marin General Hospital received a 10-year extension on its deadline for rebuilding a seismically sound facility from the state yesterday, which will move the completion date to 2030 instead of 2020, officials said.

UKIAH — Adventist Health plans to chip in another $21 million for the planned expansion of Ukiah Valley Medical Center to add improvements to the emergency department and intensive care unit, bringing the total project cost to $41 million.

GREENBRAE — Marin General Hospital recently unveiled a newly built emergency department that the 235-bed hospital said will significantly improve care and patient satisfaction.

SANTA ROSA — With construction well underway at Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa’s new $284 million hospital north of Santa Rosa, a second major health provider plans to lease space in a new medical office building next door.

GREENBRAE — Marin General Hospital released a draft environmental impact report for a roughly $500 million rebuild project that will bring the 235-bed level III trauma center in line with state seismic measures while improving other features.

NAPA — Queen of the Valley Medical Center Foundation today said it is starting a $30 million fundraising campaign to support the completion of the hospital’s Advanced Diagnostic and Surgical Pavilion under construction, the development of the Peggy Herman Neuroscience Center and the growth of the foundation’s endowment.

SANTA ROSA — Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa today announced it selected Irvine-based Hammes Company to develop an on-campus, state-of-the-art medical office building as part of the new $284 million hospital just north of Santa Rosa.

SANTA ROSA — The long-awaited opening of a 93-bed psychiatric hospital in Santa Rosa has been pushed back until August due to construction delays, according to the forthcoming hospital’s chief executive officer.

KENTFIELD — Kentfield Rehabilitation and Specialty Hospital will soon undergo a $9 million renovation and upgrade, a project five years in the making that is poised to begin in mid-May or early June, officials announced.

Mike Purvis is the chief administrative officer for Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa, which will soon be relocated from the aging Chanate facility, the former county-run Community Hospital, to a brand new, $284 million medical campus next to the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts.

Mr. Purvis will be a panelist at the Business Journal’s health care conference on Nov. 30, where he will discuss the new hospital and how it will impact Sonoma County.

NAPA –Napa County is moving along its plan to renovate the aging Health and Human Services Agency Department, a $76 million project that will rebuild the Old Sonoma Road campus with phased development over a span of 20 years.

VACAVILLE — VacaValley Hospital will soon undergo a $118 million renovation, a project that will double the size of the current hospital.

SONOMA — The Wiseman Co., a Fairfield-based real estate developer, is in the early stages of planning for a 39,000-square-foot medical office building tnear Sonoma Valley Hospital.

NORTH BAY — In less than a decade, building information modeling (BIM) has become a major construction simulation and visualization process, and it’s being employed heavily on two large hospital projects now under construction in North Bay counties.

SANTA ROSA — After a longer-than-expected state approval process, Signature Healthcare Services expects to have building improvements for its planned acute psychiatric care hospital in west Santa Rosa completed by November of this year and open the facility early next year.

SONOMA — The Sonoma Valley Healthcare District has settled on a $38.1 million plan for refurbishing the 83-bed hospital to make it seismically safe before the state-mandated deadline of March 2013.

SEBASTOPOL — Three years after it opened, Palm Drive Medical Center is expanding to larger quarters.

NAPA — Kaiser Permanente will soon undertake a $30 million renovation and expansion of its data center, adding 54,000 square feet to the remote building in Napa Valley Corporate Park.

SANTA ROSA — Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital today announced it will resume the $15 million renovation of its emergency department in early 2012, a project that was postponed during the collapse of financial markets in 2008.