- The RiverBend complex is located on 181 acres along the McKenzie River. The hospital is more than 1.2 million square feet, including Oregon Heart
& Vascular Institute (OHVI).
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| FACILITY FACTS
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- 362 private rooms with space for family to stay
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- Capacity for 28 Smart Operating Rooms (24 will be operational
on opening day, including three cardiac suites)
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- Three Caesarean section/neonatal surgical suites
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16 Labor and Delivery Suites and capacity to care for 36 infants in the NICU
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- Number of employees at Sacred Heart at RiverBend: 2,500
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- Number of new jobs created for Sacred Heart at RiverBend: 250
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- Number of employees who will remain at Sacred Heart, University District: 1,400
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- Number of parking spaces: nearly 2,800
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- There is a 2.2-mile pneumatic tube network that will move lab samples and supplies within the hospital. The tube will also have an underground connection from the hospital to the RiverBend Annex, home to Oregon Medical Labs, six-tenths of a mile away. Blood, drugs and surgical supplies will move at speeds of 25 feet per second - about 17 miles per hour - propelled by compressed air and guided by bar-code technology.
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- Hospital cost: $367 million
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- Estimated annual property taxes: $16 million at full build-out
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FUN FACTS
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- The hospital and OHVI buildings are more than two football fields long and almost a football field wide.
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- The square footage of the hospital is equal to the area of 23 football fields.
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- All the hospital elevators stacked on top of one another would be twice the height of the Empire State Building.
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- The new cafeteria kitchen can produce 48 pans of lasagna simultaneously. This equals 432 portions.
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- We are building the city of Springfield’s first parking structures at Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend.
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- As of November 2007, we have recycled more than 1,500 tons of construction materials/waste.
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CONSTRUCTION FACTS
- Sacred Heart at RiverBend was Oregon’s largest construction project in 2006, according to the Portland Daily Journal of Commerce.
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- The hospital has 78,452 cubic yards of concrete, equal to 9,807 concrete trucks.
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- The hospital has 175,235 square feet of exterior brick, or 1,436,352 bricks.
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- The hospital will use 75,685 sheets of drywall.
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- The hospital has 53.6 miles of pipe.
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- There are more than 163 miles of electrical wire in the hospital, not including telephone or data wire.
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- Phase I of the project is projected to utilize more than 2.3 million person-hours of field labor over the course of the project. As of November 2007, we have logged more than 2.25 million person-hours on the project.
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- The number of people working on the project peaked at 655 trade workers per day in October 2007.
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- Renewal of PeaceHealth's original campus, Sacred Heart Medical Center, University District will begin shortly after RiverBend opens. The University District campus will include a 24-hour emergency department, specialty care at several centers of excellence, 104 inpatient beds and an intensive care unit.
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