![]() “I was truly excited today to see the completion of a state-of-the-art facility to match the state-of-the-art health care that the county and AHS provide all citizens, regardless of their ability to pay,” Chan said. The project hired 4,000 construction workers and 180 small, minority-owned and female-owned businesses. The tower is being completed on time, on schedule and under budget, said county Supervisor Wilma Chan. “We were in the middle of a recession,” he said. ![]() The project was formally approved in 2008. Local dignitaries also were upbeat Friday, with Haggerty noting that the project faced challenges from the beginning. “I take great pride in the opening of our new building,” said nurse Lori Foidl, an intensive care unit manager. Highland workers were all smiles Friday and eager to show off features of the new tower. The Highland tower is the last of several new buildings on the 14-acre campus, including the three-story, 80,000-square-foot Highland Care Pavilion, which opened in 2013. Washington Township Health Care System in Fremont also is upgrading its facilities with a new patient tower planned. Kaiser also moved its hospital from Hayward to a new building in San Leandro. In Alameda County, those include Sutter Health’s Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley and Alta Bates Summit in Oakland, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, and Kaiser’s Oakland hospital. The revised seismic requirements have resulted in a hospital construction boom throughout the state. ![]() The upgrade was prompted in large part by the state tightening hospital seismic safety requirements after the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The project is expected to be finished in 2017. Highland Hospital is part of Alameda Health System, the county’s public health group, which also runs San Leandro and Alameda hospitals, the John George Psychiatric Hospital, Fairmont Hospital rehabilitation and skilled nursing center, and four wellness clinics.Īfter patients are moved into the new tower in early April, work will begin on the third phase of the renovation: demolition of the nearby old tower and building of a new entrance. Many of the new rooms are equipped with lift systems to help nurses move patients as needed.Įven the paint on the walls was chosen to be soothing art is displayed throughout the building’s halls and meeting rooms. The old tower, built in the 1950s, has 206 beds, with most of those in shared rooms.Įach new patient room includes a recliner chair where a family member can sleep. The new building has 169 beds, with most in single rooms offering spectacular views of Oakland. The tower is 250,000 square feet the old one, 235,000 square feet. With the new equipment, a head scan will take 1 ½ minutes, compared with the current 60 minutes. The tower’s Diagnostic and Interventional Services Center includes radiology and imaging services. “This is a significant moment in Alameda County.” “I’m proud of the taxpayers in Alameda County,” said Scott Haggerty, Alameda County Board of Supervisors president. ![]() The building will provide inpatient care, including hospital patient rooms, intensive care, a birthing center, a neonatal intensive care unit, a lab, and occupational, physical and respiratory therapy facilities. The tower is the second phase of a three-part upgrading of the county’s public health system’s main campus. OAKLAND - The jewel of a $668 million Highland Hospital campus renovation, a nine-story acute tower, was dedicated Friday. ![]()
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