Dixie Regional Medical Center will celebrate the official start of construction on a new expansion project with a ceremony on June 17 at 7:30 a.m. in the Russell C. Taylor Health Sciences parking lot at 1526 Medical Center Drive. A light breakfast will be served, four hot air balloons will mark where the buildings will be located, and a brief program with patient stories and music will be held. The event is free and open to the public.
“The purpose of this project is to expand for growth and consolidate all of the services that are at the 400 East campus at the River Road campus,” Dixie Regional Medical Center project manager Richard Dunn said. “There will be some growth in the intensive care unit, rehabilitation, mother and baby, newborn intensive care unit, and behavioral health. We are also adding an entire new neuro rehabilitation unit.”
Vice president of Intermountain Healthcare’s Southwest Region and CEO of Dixie Regional Terri Kane said this expansion supports all that Dixie Regional and Intermountain have imagined for the River Road campus.
“The project will enable Dixie Regional to become even more patient focused, will optimize coordination across the continuum of care, and will improve patient safety,” she said. “With patients, providers, and procedures all in one place, we will be able to eliminate transfers between campuses, increasing efficiency.”
Architectural plans show what will be on each floor of each tower. The tower to be added on the northwest will house imaging and affiliate clinics on the first level along with a new bistro. Labor and delivery and the NICU will be on the second level. Mothers and newborns will have the whole third level, and behavioral health will be located on the fourth level.
In the southeast tower, the lower level will house the new wound care center. Acute rehabilitation will be located on the first level. The ICU will be moved from its current location in the hospital to the second level. The third level will be shelled off for future needs and the pediactric and neuro units will be on the fourth level.
The addition on the northeast will have three levels with the lower level housing the new clinical lab. Level one will have new observation beds, specialty recovery, and emergency department overflow. On the second level, a new area of surgical services will be added.
Actual tower construction has not started yet because the foundation pillars need to be poured before anything can go up. In a few months when all of the pillars are set, construction on the expansion will begin.
“All of the towers will start construction at the same time but will all be finished at different times because of the size and scope of what is going into the different buildings,” Dunn said. “The northeast addition will be the first to finish because it is the smallest. Then the southeast building will finish up, followed by the northwest tower, which has the largest footprint.”
Also planned is a standalone comprehensive cancer center which includes Intermountain Precision Genomics. The total project cost is more than $300 million.
As for parking, by the end of construction the number of spots will more than double that available prior to the expansion. Completion of the entire project is expected late in 2018.
For more information, call (435) 251-2159.
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