CoxHealth and CBRE Healthcare are pleased to announce the topping out of the new Cox Medical Center South patient tower.

The $130 million, 310,000 square foot expansion is currently underway on the Cox South campus and is the final major expansion to take place on the campus. The expansion is a testament to CoxHealth’s vision to maintain the growing patient population and to look toward the future of healthcare. 

“We know that to continue to provide the absolute best patient care and meet the needs of our growing and aging population, we must have facilities designed for the highest standards of care and efficiency,” CEO Steve Edwards says. “This new patient tower places us securely at the forefront of health care in the Midwest.” 

The new tower will improve the care that CoxHealth offers in a multitude of ways. First, the expansion will offer all private patient rooms. This private bed model will offer therapeutic benefits for patients and ultimately improve healing outcomes. The new private room model will also increase efficiency, allowing for a better use of space, better throughput and a better patient experience. The new tower will also allow for the expansion of care offered by CoxHealth, with the addition of the Dee Ann White Women’s and Children’s Hospital on the lower floors of the new patient tower and the Jared Neurosciences Center – housing both inpatient and outpatient services – on the upper levels. 

“Our neuroscience and women’s and children’s teams are an absolute strength of this organization. We deliver more than 3,000 babies a year, and our neuroscience team has been rated number one in the nation for spinal fusion by CareChex,” Edwards says. “We want to complement first-rate care with first-rate facilities, and this expansion allows us to do that.”

CoxHealth broke ground on the nine-floor patient tower on May 15, 2013.

Despite one of the harshest winters in Missouri history, the project remains on schedule, with an anticipated opening in May 2015.

“CBRE Healthcare is honored to have been selected to partner with CoxHealth on this expansion project,” stated Steve Higgs, Managing Director for CBRE. “CoxHealth has a mission to improve the health of the surrounding communities through quality health care, education and research; this project is a testament to that mission.”

CBRE Healthcare is currently providing CoxHealth Project Management Services that include: Launch Gap Analysis; Facilities Planning Committee Organization; Project Work Review and Validation; Master Program Schedule and Budget Development and Maintenance; CON Submission; Project Delivery Team Selection; Agreement Development; Project Staffing Plan and Project Implementation Plan Development; Owner-Furnished Vendor Management; Patient Occupancy Planning and Management. 

Project Team

Owner – CoxHealth

Architects – Beck Group

Construction Managers – Beck Group / Killian

Civil Engineer – CJW Transportation Consultants

Mechanical Electrical Plumbing – ccrd Partners

Medical Equipment – Healthcare Building Solutions

Project Manager – CBRE Healthcare

Structural Engineer – Armstrong-Douglass Partners

Technology – SSR, Inc.

About CoxHealth: CoxHealth is the only locally owned, not-for-profit health system based in Springfield, Mo. It is accredited by The Joint Commission, distinguished as one of the nation’s Top 100 Integrated Healthcare Systems (2006-2012), recognized as a U.S. News & World Report Best Regional Hospital, and committed to caring for the community. CoxHealth provides more than $122 million annually in community benefit to serve the unmet needs of its friends and neighbors. Established in 1906, the organization serves more than 900,000 people in a 25-county service area in southwest Missouri and northwest Arkansas, offering a comprehensive array of primary and specialty care including five hospitals and more than 84 clinics in 24 communities. The health system includes Cox Medical Center South, Cox Medical Center Branson, Cox North Hospital, Meyer Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Hospital, Cox Monett Hospital, Oxford HealthCare (the nation’s second largest hospital-based home health agency), Home Parenteral Services (home infusion therapy), CoxHealth Foundation, Cox College, Cox HealthPlans and more.

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (in terms of 2013 revenue). The Company has approximately 44,000 employees (excluding affiliates), and serves real estate owners, investors and occupiers through approximately 350 offices (excluding affiliates) worldwide. CBRE offers strategic advice and execution for property sales and leasing; corporate services; property, facilities and project management; mortgage banking; appraisal and valuation; development services; investment management; and research and consulting. Please visit our website at www.cbre.com.