Volume 27 • No. 4
Questions answered on informed-consent policy
Revision to professoriate changes result in new "adjunct faculty" designation
New policy clarifies decision-making on admission of ED patients
Patient safety program cited as national model
Architect of Trauma Program navigated his career through twists and turns
Momentum builds with construction projects
Momentum builds with construction projects
Three major construction projects at the medical center are proceeding on schedule and should be complete by the year's end.
Construction of Stanford's new Center for Cancer Treatment and Prevention/Ambulatory Care Pavilion is about two-thirds finished, and the facility is expected to be complete by December, said project manager John Gaston. Once the building is finished, its occupants will have to wait 60 to 90 days before moving in, to allow time for testing and calibrating sophisticated equipment including a cyberknife, a PET/CT scanner and six linear accelerators.
The James H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, which will serve as the headquarters of the Bio-X program, is about 85 percent finished. Construction should be completed by the end of May, with the first occupants moving in by mid-June, said project manager Maggie Burgett.
The Clark Center features an innovative design intended to foster interdisciplinary collaboration through shared spaces, easily adjustable lab layouts, large open labs, and an expansive courtyard in the middle of the facility. The 245,000- square-foot building features three wings, three floors and a partial basement.
"We had a group of architects tour the project recently, and they said they'd never seen anything like it," Burgett said. The underground parking garage in front of Stanford Hospital, known as PS-4, will provide 1,030 parking spaces on four levels, all for physicians and staff.
The garage is expected to open by mid-April, but physicians and staff won't be able to park there until June. That's because once the garage opens, patient parking will be temporarily relocated from PS-3 to PS-4, to allow for some renovations to PS-3.
