Medical Center of Trinity Should Be Open In Late 2011
Written by Diane Galemmo Sunday, 18 July 2010 19:42
June 2010
Recently, I was allowed to tour the Medical Center of Trinity currently under construction on SR 54 with Glenn Wineinger of Bovis Land Lease, the general contractor, and Mary Sommise, director of marketing for Community Hospital / Medical Center of Trinity. During my visit, it was apparent that work on the new stateof- the-art facility is progressing at a steady pace. Sommise says, “At this time, we are planning to open in late 2011.”
The first new hospital to be built in the area in 20 years, the Medical Center of Trinity is licensed for 236 rooms, all private, many of which will have showers. Patient elevators and general public elevators will be separate. Also separate will be the ambulance entrance and emergency entrance for the general public. There will be four separate drive-in entrances. The main entrance will be on SR 54, just east of Little Rd., the ambulance entrance will on Mercy
Way & Little Rd. (behind Target). The other entrances, for outpatient surgery and for the medical office building, are on the perimeter of the building itself. Parking will be plentiful. Valet parking and golf-cart drivers also will be available to take visitors to the correct entrance. The medical office building, a 90,000-sq.-ft. fourstory building, will be alongside the five-story hospital tower. Both the hospital tower and the medical office building have the ability to expand up
to eight floors if necessary. Plans also allow for additional freestanding buildings in the future.
The building will meet the strictest of codes to ensure that it is hurricane-proof. The 200,000-sq.-ft. first floor will consist of the lobby, cafeteria, medical records, pharmacy, lab, imaging, volunteers, a chapel, and surgical services in eight operating rooms. All patient rooms are on the 2nd floor and up.
Wineinger, who is responsible for the mechanical, electric and plumbing components of the project, says that the underground and in-the-wall electrical, mechanical, and plumbing work is done. The exterior of the building (EIFS, Exterior Insulation and Finishing System) is basically constructed and consists of several layers of material including a layer of sheathing (DensGlass® Sheathing), a layer of styrofoam, a layer of synthetic stucco, and then a layer of colored synthetic stucco. There is fiber mesh installed between some layers for impact resistance as well. The exterior and interior walls and floors will be in earth-tone colors and most windows are in.
The concrete slab for the first, second, third and fourth floors, along with masonry work, the erection of the steel frame and metal decking is complete, as well as much of the face of the building. Rainwater leaders, part of a roof-to-ground storm-water drainage system, are being installed as areas become available, in preparation for roof installation.
Sitting on 55 acres of land, and costing nearly $200 million, it is anticipated that the hospital will have more than 400 physicians, and about 1,300 employees and volunteers.
Kathryn J. Gillette, Chief Executive Officer of Community Hospital— the future Medical Center of Trinity— says, “We are very excited about Medical Center of Trinity opening late next year. Our improvements to healthcare are not waiting for Trinity. Here at Community Hospital, we just received the Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval for 12 disease management programs. We are one of only two hospitals in the State of Florida to have achieved this. Add to it our Certified Chest Pain Center and Accredited Comprehensive Cancer Program and you can see we are doing all the right things for our patients and our community.”
Visit www.medicalcentertrinity.com for further information.
