UNC Health’s North Carolina Surgical Hospital has been completed. Rising seven stories and spanning 375,000 square feet, it is the largest addition to the Chapel Hill campus since it was built in 1952.
Designed by Page and built by Skanska, the new surgical hospital offers 26 operating rooms, four of which are hybrid-size operating rooms to accommodate additional equipment and technology for newly developed procedures, 59 pre- and post-operating rooms, as well as two floors of ICU space with 80 beds. The building has a main reception area, as well as visitor waiting areas on each floor, an indoor and outdoor staff lounge, employee locker rooms, offices and conference rooms.
Patient drop-off canopies grace the entrances of both the surgical hospital and the children’s hospital next door. Additionally, two new overhead pedestrian bridges connect the existing campus parking decks to the UNC Adams School of Dentistry building, as well as to the new hospital.
Prior to construction, site development work included extensive utility relocations, an upgraded storm and sanitary system, a new chilled water and steam system and a new electrical duct bank from the hospital’s generator plant.
