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Project News FOR MORE NEWS To see and read more about recent projects, visit the Medical Construction & Design website at www.mcdmag.com. To submit a project, send to editor@mcdmag.com. Kaiser Permanente celebrates grand opening of Westside Medical Center Ascension Group completes Forest Park hospital in Southlake, Texas Ascension Group Architects recently completed the $82-million Forest Park Medical Center Southlake in Southlake, Texas. The hospital, in a booming area of Dallas-Fort Worth, opened with 54 beds and 12 operating rooms. Adolfson & Peterson Construction is the general contractor of the project. The 141,700-square-foot hospital also boasts three levels and structure for two floors in the future. A rooftop garden is visible from nearly all patient rooms and accessible from patient floors. The project will be LEED Silver certified. Plans also call for an attached 80,000-square-foot medical office building, which is scheduled to open in spring 2014 and will be designed by GSR Andrade Architects. The S/L/A/M Collaborative, Tocci Building Companies completes Marlborough Hospital cancer center The S/L/A/M Collaborative and Tocci Building Companies recently completed a 14,000-square-foot cancer center at Marlborough Hospital in Massachusetts. The entrance acts as a "Beacon of Hope" The recently opened Kaiser Permanente Westside Medical Center features 126 beds, eight operating rooms, 27 treatment rooms in the emergency department and the regional center for total joint replacement surgeries and robotic surgeries. The facility was built by Andersen Construction and designed by AECOM. It is the first new hospital in Washington County in 40 years. The hospital, just outside of Portland, Ore., is also Kaiser Permanente's first LEED Gold-certified hospital, built to be a healthful, durable, affordable and environmentally sound medical center. Multi-lingual signs, touch-screen directories, automated check-ins and printable maps and schedules enable patients to access care quickly. Artwork and colors were specially designed to create an environment of healing throughout the campus. delivery concept of Integrated Project Delivery led by UMass Memorial. Additional project partners included C.A. Senecal Electrical Services, Renaud HVAC & Controls, Youngblood Plumbing and Heating and Covenant Fire Protection. Banner Estrella celebrates construction topping off of patient tower by night and a naturally illuminated space by day. The infusion therapy space, bathed in natural light, warm colors and wood, overlooks a healing garden complete with a reflecting pool. The project is one of the first in New England completed under the Lean 4 Medical Construction & Design | November/December 2013 Banner Estrella Medical Center recently celebrated a topping-out ceremony for the new $161-million patient tower. Construction of the six-story, 279,000-square-foot tower located in Phoenix, Ariz., will deliver 178 additional private patient beds, www.mcdmag.com