$50 million hospital expansion into lifestyle campus

McCarthy Building Companies, one of the nation’s largest health care contractors, and HKS Architects, Inc., have completed the expansion of the surgical center and construction of the new patient tower at Erlanger East Hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Completed one month ahead of schedule, the $50 million expansion transforms Erlanger East Hospital into the region’s first lifestyle hospital. The project includes four new operating rooms, a post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) expansion, a pre- and post-op expansion, a new cardiovascular interventional radiology suite, and renovations to the reception and administrative areas. The new 58-bed patient tower, which includes a 6-bed Intensive Care Unit, could be mistaken for a hotel, with larger, modern patient rooms that can accommodate patients’ families, and expanded food service operations. Outside, the community can enjoy a campus-wide walking trail, putting green and playground.
“Erlanger East Hospital is a critical medical resource for the area,” said Erlanger Health System President and CEO Kevin M. Spiegel. “These improvements to our facilities will help our patients and their families focus on what is most important –treatment and recovery – in an environment that is comfortable, welcoming and state of the art.”
“Chattanooga is a rapidly expanding hub for health care,” said McCarthy Project Executive Mark Allnutt. “We are honored to have delivered a facility that will provide the highest quality medical care to individuals and families in the tri-state region.”
Additionally, McCarthy showed its appreciation to the community by completing a Heart Hats project at the Oncology Center at the Erlanger Baroness campus. For two days, McCarthy employees, Erlanger Health System volunteers and patients brought new life to the Oncology Center’s Healing Garden with new landscaping, added seating, a water fountain and the addition of a small bridge to help patients undergoing therapy and treatment relax.
Erlanger East will host a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 1:30 p.m., to celebrate the completion of the expansion to the surgical center and completion of the new patient tower.
About McCarthy
McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. is the oldest privately held national construction company in the country – with more than 150 years spent collaborating with partners to solve complex building challenges on behalf of its clients. With an unrelenting focus on safety and a comprehensive quality program that span all phases of every project, McCarthy utilizes industry-leading design phase and construction techniques combined with value-add technology to maximize outcomes. Repeatedly honored as a Best Place to Work and Healthiest Employer, McCarthy is ranked the 16th largest domestic general contractor (Engineering News-Record, May 2016). With approximately 1,700 salaried employees and offices in St. Louis, Atlanta; Collinsville, Ill.; Portage, Ind.; Kansas City, Kan.; Phoenix; Las Vegas; Denver; Dallas, Houston; Albuquerque; and San Diego, Newport Beach, San Francisco, San Jose and Sacramento, Calif. McCarthy is 100 percent employee owned. More information about the company is available online at www.mccarthy.com or by following the company on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Google+.
About Erlanger Health System
Erlanger Health System is a non-profit, academic medical center affiliated with the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, and is a Level-One Trauma Center for adults and, through Children’s Hospital at Erlanger, is also the region’s only pediatric hospital. Erlanger is the only provider of tertiary care services for a four-state region encompassing southeast Tennessee, north Georgia, north Alabama and western North Carolina. The health system consists of five hospitals and six emergency centers, provides medical services for a fleet of five helicopters and offers centers of excellence in neurosciences, cancer care, cardiology, orthopedics, trauma, women and children’s care and transplant services. With a history that dates back more than a century, Erlanger is the seventh largest public healthcare system in the United States and second largest employer in Chattanooga, Tenn. Each year, a half a million people are treated by the team of healthcare professionals who are part of Erlanger. Visit www.erlanger.org