PRLog (Press Release) - Mar 14, 2011 - (St. Louis, MO, March 14, 2011)

Forty Six years after Goleta Valley Cottage Hospitsl (GVCH) was initially built in Goleta, CA, crews from HBE Corporation began pouring the foundation for a 148,000 square foot replacement hospital right next door.

Construction of the new $103 million hospital is expected to be completed in October 2013 and will meet the seismic standards required by the state by 2013.

Experienced hospital design-build firm HBE Corporation is providing architecture and engineering services, and construction including site work on the project.  With soil-quality posing some challenges on the project, work on the foundation is expected to continue for the next two months.

"The new Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital is going to be a beautiful facility, but more importantly, it was designed and will be built to meet the needs of the community," said Diane Wisby, the hospital's vice president.  "Watching almost 100 trucks deliver concrete and seeing the basement of the new hospital begin to take shape was very exciting for everyone.  We are thrilled to be building this state-of-the-art hospital for our community.  When the project is completeed in late 2013, we will have an extraordinary facility to support and care for our neighbors."

The new facility will have 20 emergency room beds, the number of surgical suites will increase from four to six, and it will have 44 private medical/surgical rooms, eight intensive care rooms, a dedicated endoscopy suite and four hyperbaric oxygen chambers.  Another feature of the hospital will be what's termed as "key adjacencies" or strategic placement of certain types of rooms near services designed to eliminate duplication of testing facilities and unnecessary movement of patients from their rooms.

ABOUT HBE: 

HBE Corporation is the nation’s leading designer and builder of hospitals, including replacement hospitals and hospital renovations and additions.  The company has designed and built more than 1,100 hospitals in 49 states, and is ranked as the number one hospital design-build firm in the United States.  Headquartered in St. Louis, HBE is one of the largest privately held companies in the Midwest with a staff of 400 people including architects, engineers and construction professionals.