Penn Medicine broke ground on the Pavilion in 2016 and it is on track to open to patients Oct. 30. The original occupancy date had been set for early June but was delayed because of the temporary shift to completing beds for coronavirus patients. The project is also on budget and has experienced virtually no supply chain issues or unexpected material costs.
“We have been lucky,” said Greulich, who has overseen the project for the last seven years from when it was just being planned by the health system. “We made decisions early in buying steel and aluminum and we are past those issues when it deals with supply chain.”
While the project, the largest undertaking by Penn, is nearly done, there’s still work that remains over the next several months. Each day, about 700 construction workers are on the job site. About 75% of the interior of the building is complete and there’s site work such as cleaning up the sidewalks, paving and landscaping that still needs to be done.
The process of bringing in and installing all of the building’s furniture and equipment is also scheduled for the next few months. The building will have 504 private patient rooms and 47 operating rooms.
IIRC they’re still doing some work at ground level. The tower portion was expedited because of COVID. It was used as extra bedding in the beginning when hospitalizations surged.
Is it ready for renovation yet? Hospitals seem to always be changing something around.
In the photo this actually smallish next to the Frankenbuilding.
IIRC they’re still doing some work at ground level. The tower portion was expedited because of COVID. It was used as extra bedding in the beginning when hospitalizations surged.
Yeah they're doing some hardscaping. You can see it easily out of the Ravdin building but it didn't feel appropriate to take photos from occupied patient rooms
Yeah they're doing some hardscaping. You can see it easily out of the Ravdin building but it didn't feel appropriate to take photos from occupied patient rooms
I just hope that the hardscaping pushes up Penn's ranking in the US News Best Hospitals Honor Roll.
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