Newport builder chosen for Hoag Women’s Pavilion

Hoag Hospital has selected McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. to build the

hospital’s Women’s Pavilion, the hospital announced this week.

Construction is expected to begin in the fall on the pavilion, the

largest construction project at Hoag since the West Patient Tower was

built in 1974. Newport Beach-based McCarthy also built Hoag’s 455-space

parking garage, which was completed earlier this year.

Plans for the Women’s Pavilion, designed by Taylor & Associates

Architects of Newport Beach, include a seven-level tower with a basement

and a mechanical penthouse, as well as an 11,000-square-foot, two-level

connector building with a cafe and a gift shop. The contractor plans to

use state-of-the-art seismic technology to fortify the pavilion against

earthquakes.

The Women’s Pavilion is scheduled to be completed in 2005. It will

house birthing facilities that include a maternity unit with 49 private

rooms, 18 state-of-the-art labor-delivery-recovery suites, a 21-bassinet

neonatal intensive care unit with a special overnight suite for parents,

a seven-bed antepartum unit, and fetal diagnostics.

It will also house the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Hoag Breast Care and

Imaging Center with diagnostic and treatment services, an osteoporosis

clinic, a peri menopausal clinic and a continence center.