Kings County residents will get a new, $114 million Adventist Medical Center in 2010 to meet the growing region’s demand for health care services for years to come.
Construction on the three-story, 142-bed medical center started in September 2007 at Seventh Street and Mall Drive in Hanford. Most services from Adventist Health’s Hanford Community Medical Center and Central Valley General Hospital in town will move to the new site once it’s completed.
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Features of the 202,000-square-foot hospital, built by HBE, Inc., include private rooms and a mission-style design with a dramatic, three-story rotunda entrance. Emergency, laboratory, surgery and other departments will be on the first floor, while nursing and intensive care units will be housed on the second and third floors. The 142 inpatient beds will include 120 medical/surgical beds and 22 intensive care unit beds, while the Emergency Department will hold 26 private emergency rooms. In addition, 32,000 square feet in additional expansion area will be shelled in on the second and third floors to house a total of 60 future additional beds when needed.
Next door, the three-story Hanford Medical Pavilion will house the outpatient Kings River Surgical Center and outpatient laboratory and medical imaging services on the first floor and physician offices on the top two floors.
Funds for Adventist Medical Center will come through community gifts and local Adventist Health operations. The project differs from many major hospital construction projects in that no public taxes are required.
After the new hospital opens, Central Valley General Hospital will continue to provide obstetrics and clinic service. The Hanford Community building will house business and support services until leaders determine the best use of this important community resource. The Kerr Outpatient Center will remain open for outpatient surgery services, women's imaging and physician offices, but laboratory services will move to the new Hanford Medical Pavilion adjacent to the new hospital.
As Adventist Health finishes this project, network leaders are conducting a thorough study to determine the best possible location for women’s services to ensure that our community’s health care resources are used to their full potential.
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