BALTIMORE, Md. — Perdana University — in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Medicine International — has completed the important strategic programming and planning phase of a groundbreaking new healthcare system in Malaysia, led by a team comprised of Jones Lang LaSalle and Ayers Saint Gross.
The strategic planning process incorporated all elements through space planning, from the overall campus to specialty department and room-by-room configurations. It is, according to the planning team, the delivery model recipe, which will create the final design for the 1,000-bed teaching hospital, medical university and research campus. The architectural design phase will commence with the selection of an architecture firm pending the finalization of an international design firm competition.
The new facility will be known as Perdana University Hospital and Graduate School of Medicine in Malaysia. When completed, the ways in which medical care, teaching and research will be delivered in Southeast Asia will take quantum leaps forward. With strategic planning and programming complete, the project will move to the architectural design phase, pending the final selection of an architectural form following an international design competition.
The new development is being led by Johns Hopkins Medicine International, the worldwide arm of John Hopkins University of Medicine, and in collaboration with a Malaysian public-private partnership. The ambitious project will create the first fully-integrated private four-year graduate medical school and teaching hospital on the continent. It is also the first health system application in the world to incorporate Johns Hopkins’ new interdisciplinary ‘Genes to Society’ curriculum that melds science and teaching into a hospital that works and looks very different from today’s standard.
The project is being developed 20 minutes south of downtown Kuala Lumpur in Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia by Chase Perdana Sdn Bhd.
Ultimately, the new campus will consist of a 3-million-square-foot complex containing a teaching hospital, medical education facilities, research facilities, administrative offices and student support amenities.
“The new Johns Hopkins model will set the global standard,” said Scot Latimer, managing director of the Healthcare Solutions group, who led the planning effort at Jones Lang LaSalle. “This new medical campus, with hospital, teaching and research components, is being planned and developed in the highly interdisciplinary and integrated model for which Johns Hopkins is so well-known. It will set the standard for future generations.”
The goal is to deliver the completed and fully-operational facility in late 2014 or early 2015. Phase One will be comprised of a 600-bed all-private room teaching hospital (another first in Asia), 750,000 gross square feet of teaching space and 100,000 gross square feet of research space.
