A new hospital for our community

Thank you for your overwhelming support of Measure V, the agreement to build a new hospital for the community, in the special election this summer.

Measure V passed with over 92% of the vote and Mills-Peninsula Health Services (MPHS) has already begun construction of the new $488 million state-of-the-art modern medical campus that will replace Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame. The current hospital needs to be replaced because it no longer meets new state-mandated seismic safety standards required by 2013.

The new medical facility is scheduled to be completed in early 2010.  The plans include all private rooms to promote family-centered care, the most modern technological equipment such as electronic patient charting, nine meditation and healing gardens, and a helipad on the campus.

Peninsula Medical Center will remain operational until the new hospital opens its doors.

For a minute by minute look at the new construction activity, check out MPHS’s live webcam at: www.mills-peninsula.org/newhospital.

New Hospital for the Next Century

The new hospital campus will feature:

• A six-story, 450,000 square foot general care hospital, including an unfinished floor for future expansion
  
• A 145,000 square foot office building adjacent to the new hospital for administrative personnel and hospital-oriented specialty physicians, allowing specialists to be more immediately accessible to patients in the hospital and ER, thereby improving access and quality of care
  
• Advanced engineering technology, which will provide the highest level of seismic safety in the new facility
  
• 243 beds with all private rooms—except for behavioral health rooms, where socialization benefits of two-bed rooms is preferred, and in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
  
• Family sleeping accommodations in all medical/surgical, skilled nursing, obstetric, intensive care and neonatal intensive care patient rooms
  
• A first-floor design that locates the emergency department, operating rooms and imaging services together for optimum efficiency and patient care
  
• Nine meditation and healing gardens with walking trails for patients, visitors, employees and neighbors
  
• No recycled air for improved patient safety
  
• Technologically-advanced facility with electronic patient charting and Internet-based capabilities for communication between patients, physicians and family members
  
• An emergency department enlarged by 42 percent to accommodate 50,000 visits per year (up from 35,000 visits) with the capability of providing trauma care
  
• A separate entrance for emergency department vehicles
  
• Helipad
  
• 809-car parking garage, plus additional surface parking with level access to the front door of the new hospital