UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital in Longmont, Colorado recently celebrated a major leap forward in its expansion as a medical helicopter made the first official landing on the hospital’s new rooftop helipad.
The helicopter landing marked the opening of several recently completed components of the hospital’s multi-phase expansion project — including new operating rooms, new pre- and post-anesthesia care spaces and additional patient rooms in the birth center — all designed to meet healthcare needs of a growing community.
Hospital leaders, project planners and construction partners gathered to witness the helicopter’s arrival and celebrate the progress of the expansion project.
The hospital, which opened in 2017 with 51 beds, has grown to 86 beds, and more progressive care and acute care beds will be opening in the year to come. The expansion, which broke ground in 2023, ais adding 89,000 square feet to the hospital campus.
Completed:
- Two operating rooms
- Nine pre- and post-anesthesia care bays
- Three labor, delivery and recovery rooms
- One C-section room
- Expanded emergency department with seven exam rooms and three fast-track rooms
- New sterile processing department
- Infill of the hospital courtyard to create new kitchen and dining room
- Renovated and expanded pharmacy
- New, expanded laboratory
- Expanded central utility plant
- Shelled space for future OR growth
More to be completed this year:
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Renovated respiratory clinic
More to come next year:
- Nine new medical-surgical inpatient rooms
- Ten new progressive-care inpatient rooms
- Electrophysiology lab
- Outpatient X-ray and CT
Major design and construction trade partners include design partner Page, Cator Ruma, Walter P Moore, Cevian, JVA, BHA, Ricca, Jensen Hughes, FD2S, Lerch Bates, SLR, Envision Planning, Trautman & Shreve, Sturgeon Electric, Zimmerman Metals, SNS Iron Works, Integrity Fire Safety Services, Heggem-Lundquist, Encore Electric, Commercial Flooring Services, Soderberg Masonry and Douglass Colony Group.
