The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected the construction
contractor to build the Denver VA Medical Center (VAMC) replacement
hospital. The new hospital will be on the same campus as the University
of Colorado Hospital complex in Aurora, site of the former Fitzsimons
Army Medical Center.
“This new hospital demonstrates our continued commitment to serve
Americas Veterans with the finest facilities and health care models”
This new hospital demonstrates our continued commitment to serve
Americas Veterans with the finest facilities and health care models,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki said. It will belong to
the Veterans that it serves, and will be dedicated to providing them
with the latest in state-of-the-art, Veteran-centric health care
services. In the same way that we welcome Veterans of our military into
VA, we now welcome this Veteran site of caring for our military into our
mission.
VA announced the selection of the joint venture of Kiewit-Turner,
located in Englewood, on September 2. The contract award is for
$1,313,100 to begin pre-construction services.
The project provides collaboration and joint operation of both VA and
Buckley Air Force Base/Department of Defense (DoD) medical services on
the new site. DoD will have a separate clinic on the entire fourth floor
of the south clinic building.
VA will increase the number of employees at the new hospital from the
current 1,815 employees to more than 2,000. Of the 24 architecture,
engineering and various supporting firms working on the new medical
center, 17 are Colorado companies.
The contract provides pre-construction services to assist VA and the
architect/engineer team in the design of a new 206-bed tertiary care
medical center with approximately 1.126 million square feet. This
includes remodeling the building currently on the south end of the site.
The project includes a new 120-bed inpatient bed-tower with a 30-bed
spinal cord injury unit, plus a separate 30-bed nursing home community
living center. The new hospital will be a state-of-the-art facility
close to VAs medical school affiliate, the University of Colorados
hospital. This will ensure every patient receives an optimal complement
of clinical services. Expanded telehealth, polytrauma and traumatic
brain injury programs will be included.
Total project cost for the new VAMC is $800 million. Construction is
scheduled to be completed in
Source: Business Wire
