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As a designated National Cancer Research Facility on an Urban campus with limited space, we have the responsibility to create the best environment to battle this disease. We desire to build a new Cancer Research Center, which will bring together all research programs that are currently scattered across our campus. This will greatly enhance our ability to fight this battle. This 300,000 sq ft facility will include dry and wet lab space, imaging center, vivarium, administrative and conference space. It will enhance collaboration and be in better geographic proximity to the University of Kansas Hospital.

Due to the growing need for continured Alzheimers research, the limited space on our campus, and the need to unify the groups into contiguous space, we are proposing a new Brain Health Center. This building will be approximately 110,000 sq ft. It will include clinical space , patient exercise areas, clinical trials, administrative office, dry and wet lab space. It will also house a memory cafe, demonstration kitchen, areas for staff and faculty to monitor clinical trials research. Also providing clinical patient support.

This is to be a building based on inter-professional education, leveraging assets in place at the University of Kansas Medical center to alleviate the shortage of oral health professionals in the State of Kansas. Architectural services to include programming, design consultation, design development, and potential construction documents is estimated at $2.6M. The project construction budget is $33,000,000 consisting of an estimated 80,000 sq. ft. Planned location is the current home of Dykes Library at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

Construct a multi-level parking garage for University of Kansas Medical Center with a capacity of approx. 1500 vehicles to serve the university and the new hospital facility planned to be constructed between State Line Ave. and Cambridge Street. The parking facility will be located, in accordance with the approved campus master plan, on a site between Eaton and Cambridge Streets and 37th and 38th Avenues. Parking system revenues will secure the bonds to construct the facility.

moderne wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 12:40 pm If they are putting a dental college where the library is now, where is the library moving to?

kboish wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 7:42 am Also, I don't understand the #4 description of the parking garage. The location it describes, b/w cambridge/eaton and 37th/38th already has a 1500 space garage on it. I would have expected them to site 36th/37th. Is this dated?

normalthings wrote: ↑Sun Jun 20, 2021 7:48 pm KU Med considering STAR Bonds for hotel/mixed use development

... "Having a hotel directly on a hospital campus provides that hospital with a tremendous advantage," says David Messersmith, who leads the medical hospitality platform at Gatehouse Capital. "It provides a more convenient experience for patients' families, as well as a competitive advantage for the hospital brand."

In addition to Baylor University Medical Center, Gatehouse Capital has contracts out with several other hospitals in various stages of negotiations. They are primarily establishing deals with large hospitals in metropolitan areas, where patients and their families presumably have broad choice when it comes to selecting overnight accommodations.

With a hotel on campus, visiting nurses and physicians, as well as patients' family members, are conveniently located close to the hospital and their loved ones, but have the opportunity to experience the comfort of a hotel. The hotels — which are all Marriott, Hilton, Starwood or Hyatt brands — will offer a variety of amenities that are specifically tailored to hospital visitors, such as a concierge to help them navigate through large hospital buildings, restaurants, bars and a fitness center.

They are also suited for hospital patients themselves. For example, the rooms will be furnished with comfortable bedroom furniture that would be safe for recovering patients. They will also house clinical retail space, where patients can check in prior to surgery, do blood work and other tests and fill out insurance paper work. Patients who have to travel a considerable distance to the hospital for a procedure or follow-up care may also find it more conducive to stay near the hospital overnight.

Building a hotel on campus expands hospitals' opportunities to increase revenue. Many large facilities already cater to patients' families by offering hospitality suites inside the hospital. However, these are typically not ideal for visiting family members, who could benefit from the respite of a private hotel suite. With a hotel on campus, hospitals can convert these hospitality suites into patient rooms, where they can treat more patients and earn significant revenue.

"A lot of what we're doing is freeing up hospitals' space to create and better utilize the facility," says Mr. Messersmith. "On top of the suites, the hotels offer two things every hospital wants: More parking and more meeting space."

The hotels offer ample space for hosting conferences, medical sales reps or continuing medical education seminars, according to Mr. Messersmith.

As emphasis on the patient experience grows, and as hospitals operate in an increasingly competitive environment, Mr. Messersmith anticipates more facilities will seek to build hotels on their campuses.

"My guess is in the next few years, every large hospital will have a hotel on its campus," he says.

langosta wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:43 am Isn’t there a small Holiday Inn already

Where on campus? North of 39th? About same sq ft as City Center Square/Light well.