Penn Medicine will build a new 164,150 square foot building at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, on the corner of 38th and Powelton Avenue. This will be the first new construction on the Penn Presbyterian campus since the Philadelphia Heart Institute was built in 1992.

The building will consist of multidisciplinary outpatient clinics and house Penn Medicine’s Musculoskeletal Institute which will include Orthopaedics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Rheumatology, as well as upgraded Radiology services, new inpatient and outpatient operating rooms and an expanded Emergency Department.

The new building and renovated operating rooms will have additional peri-operative space and an updated PACU, bringing PPMC to a total of 16 Operating Rooms in the main OR area, sized to accommodate a combined 18,000 inpatient and outpatient cases annually. This represents a 39 percent increase in surgical capacity. A centralized diagnostic imaging center will accommodate both inpatients and outpatients. In addition, the expanded ED will have a general radiology room and CT scanner.

A second phase of the building will add higher floors for additional single-bed rooms for inpatients with the Musculoskeletal Institute, as well as conference and administrative space.

The building will be built to meet LEED Silver certification requirements, and will incorporate the latest elements of eco-friendly health care design.

The building plans and designs will be finalized throughout the fall. We expect to break ground in late winter/early spring 2012, with an anticipated completion in 2015.

Additional FY12 Capital Improvements
In addition to the new ambulatory building construction, Penn Presbyterian will also initiate major capital improvement projects in FY12, including:
•    Renovations of the Scheie Eye Institute lobby and practice space
•    Installation of a robotic pharmaceutical dispensing unit, for inpatient pharmacy
•    An upgrade to the Electrophysiology (EP) lab
•    Renovations to the 3 East nursing unit
•    A Hospital-wide telemetry system upgrade
•    An upgrade to the daVinci Robot to “SI” model, which features a dual-consol robot

We are excited to move forward with all of our capital projects this year, including the groundbreaking for our new space, as we cultivate a state-of-the-art, integrated hospital for our staff, patients and visitors to thrive in.