Collaboration by Design

The latest projects on the Hopkins drawing board are clinical buildings like no others.

Before the end of the decade, specialists across the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus will be doing a lot more elbow rubbing. The new Cardiovascular and Critical Care Tower, slated for completion in 2008, is being built around the idea that fostering collaboration among traditionally different departments will create the most efficient, modern and technologically advanced center for treating critically ill adults.

The timing couldn’t be better. The medical field has undergone a dramatic transformation in the last 10 years, and change continues at a rapid rate. To keep pace, Hopkins must replace outdated buildings with state-of-the-art facilities that encourage researchers and physicians to work in close proximity and to develop expertise in similar equipment and technologies.

Expected to stretch 10 stories tall, encompass approximately 830,000 square feet and house 350 beds, the Cardiovascular and Critical Care Tower will be Hopkins’ largest clinical building. This capital improvement is a dual project that will also comprise a Children’s and Maternal Hospital. Both buildings will link to the already existing Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building for the care of cancer patients at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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