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Penn does care about zoning, and it would take much more than one call to Blackwell to get past it. |
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BTW, when you say tower, do you mean something along the same height as the rest of the Perelman monster, or something more like a true tower? |
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the east tower would have been on par with the smilow and south towers. |
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But in any case, I would put out the idea that Penn/HUP could in the future consider building onto Perelman, if it was originally built with that as a possibility, present zoning be damned. My question some time ago was wondering if this new building is being designed with any room to expand (upward?) and I guess at this point no one on this outlet knows. I would imagine that for every patient room a hospital needs to have "X" number of sq. footage of support space, such as labs, laundry, food service, etc. I could see that it might be relatively "easy" in the future to add another 2 or 3 floors of patient rooms as they would just go on top of existing patient floors, but unless there were plans in place right from the start to handle such a increase in beds, I don't know where the support space would go. I need a spy of the inside. Any takers? BTW, I can't believe that these 500+ patient beds are in addition to the existing 500+ beds that HUP presently has. Just think of where those patients would be coming from, and more to the point, where would the doctors come from. And I'm almost 100% sure that the State Department of Health controls the number of beds (too many and we all pay, but we already pay anyways!). |
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Is this as deep as they are going to dig?
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I haven't heard an update in a few months, but there may be 5xx beds or whatever works out monetarily. In general Penn Medicine fashion, the "core + shell" is one thing and what they then fill in is another. So if everything works out based on all sorts of calculations and projections that say 583 beds is the number, then that may mean say 15 floors but they may still construct say 20 floors to build "in" the remaining floors later.
They want the rooms to be convenient for change later as patient care evolves so that the floors don't have to be shut down years from now for more specialized care. While that is great planning, it will add significant cost per floor that is build "in". Licensed beds are not really a concern, it's more of a license/tax fee thing than meant to block or govern growth. As several have pointed out most of the rooms will be to replace older two-patient rooms. Then those older rooms can be renovated, converted to offices, given to the university, whatever as needed. When I do presentations for work, I have to check each time what each hospitals "bed count" is because it changes quite often. In the presentations it is more of a brag right (for our size) than anything else. By the time the money and need was on hand to in-fill/build-out more floors, the license bed fees would be the least of the concern (cost and time wise). Capacity of patients is not a simple license bed count, it's also a function of how quickly you can get patients out of the beds, how long you keep them in the operative/post-operative areas, how quickly you can clean a room, and so on. You can always put a patient on a cot in a hall if you had to LOL. Cheers, G. |
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I bet there are some nice details in here that someone who gets past the paywall can see.
http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...work-on-a.html |
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"The project will dramatically expand the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s bed count"
I guess that answers the question; its not just a replacement of existing beds (rooms) but an actual increase. Now, if I could just get them to add a few more floors------------------------ |
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Wow, they really are right up to the Penn Museum...
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