Construction has begun on the new campus, which will be located at the corner of Airline and Pecue Lane. Check out what's currently happening at the site. View more architect renderings of the exterior and floor plans.

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Site Location

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Woman’s Hospital has studied and planned for future growth. The new state-of-the-art facility will be located approximately 5 miles from our current campus, at the corner of Airline Highway and Pecue Lane.

Facts

Hospital Development:

• Five-story hospital building (approximately 520,000 square feet)
• Two medical office buildings (approximately 260,000 square feet in total)
• Two-story support services building (approximately 69,000 square feet)
• Two-story central energy plant building (approximately 23,000 square feet)
• Approximately 85 acres

Capacity Increases:

• Increase inpatient adult rooms from 139 to 176
• Increase NICU beds from 82 patients to 96
• Increase Labor and Delivery rooms from 25 to 28

Amenities and Service Improvements:

• All patient rooms will be large and specially designed for our services, most with views of nature
• More convenient parking for hospital patients and visitors (closest current surface parking is 880 feet to main entrance; on new campus, farthest will be less than 400 feet)
• All NICU patients will have private rooms
• Campus includes 1.25 mile walking trail around a lake
• Generous distribution of family resource and waiting spaces
• Improved cafeteria facilities including covered outdoor dining alongside a beautiful waterfront plaza
• Expanded conference room and meeting facilities

New Clinical Services:

• Comprehensive Breast Center
• Ambulatory Surgery Center
• Additional outpatient services focused primarily on mid-life women’s health

Project Economics:

• $350,000,000
• Use of local contractors as much as possible
• Fuels approximately 450 construction jobs

Schedule:

• Start site work in June of 2008
• Structural steel work starts in December 2008
• Complete construction in late 2010
• Move into new facility in early 2011

The Team

Woman's Hospital selected HKS, Inc., from Dallas in association with Ford | Dickinson, AAC of Baton Rouge as the architectural firms to develop the new campus. HKS is among the top healthcare architectural firms in the country.

The construction management team of JE Dunn Construction Group, Austin; Milton J. Womack, Inc., Baton Rouge; and Arkel Constructors, Baton Rouge, has been selected.

Additionally, ccrd partners of Dallas was selected to work in partnership with Baton Rouge-based consulting engineering firm, Assaf, Tauzin, Simoneaux, and Associates, Inc. ABMB has been selected to provide civil engineering services for the project.