LF Driscoll Healthcare Projects

Ongoing advancements in medicine and technology means medical facilities are constantly adapting—which, in turn, means completing construction projects in busy hospital environments. That was the case for this 12,000sf gut renovation of the fourth floor in a busy urban hospital, where communication and coordination were key. Above the project site resides the adolescent inpatient psychiatric wing. Below the project site is a fullly operating suite with operating rooms, post-op, and adjacent sterile areas. Our LF Driscoll Healthcare team worked closely with hospital staff to minimize disruption and employed flexible scheduling at night and on weekends to work around critical hospital functions.

When NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital decided to upgrade their compounding pharmacy to meet the updated USP797 Pharmaceutical Compounding – Sterile Preparations and USP800 Hazardous Drugs standards, the challenge for our LF Driscoll Healthcare team was building a plan that would allow the pharmacy to continue operating during construction. The project involved installing new robotic compounding equipment, replacing the current robotic packaging equipment with new equipment, updating delivery systems, and installing a new rooftop AHU.

The existing Emergency Department at The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) was built to serve 35,000 patients per year but had been treating nearly twice the number. In efforts to better serve the Brooklyn community, TBHC decided to renovate and expand the existing Emergency Department. Our LF Driscoll Healthcare team is currently providing construction management services for the major expansion to increase the capacity of the Emergency Department (ED) by nearly 50% to meet today’s benchmarks and facilitate clinical efficiencies and workflows.

Working in urban areas in New York is often complicated – buildings are old, basements are below street level and have multi-use storage areas, and utilities are buried in the street and not easily accessible. So when The Brooklyn Hospital Center decided to convert an existing commercial storefront into a new medical facility for urgent care, a primary care clinic and an imaging suite, our LF Driscoll Healthcare team managed all those issues to successfully turn this space over from its previous commercial use to a proper, functioning medical space.

The LFD Healthcare team has worked with The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) to complete several projects and help expand their footprint in the community. We were hired to manage the construction of the fitout of six floors (6-11) in a medical office building in downtown Brooklyn. This expansion was a critical project for TBHC and provides patients with the opportunity to meet their physicians in a non-emergency setting for medical visits and procedures.

As improving technology and medical advances continue to facilitate out-patient care, The HOPE Tower at Jersey Shore Medical Center was guided by a patient-centered approach and informed by the latest medical breakthroughs. The mission, contained in the name – HOPE - The Healing Outpatient Experience, provides a 10-story, 300,000sf medical office building that brings together a wide range of pediatric and adult medical expertise under one roof.