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Health Matters: Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | 3 T here has been a great deal of anticipation since "Reimagined," the construction project for Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center, was announced in 2019. The $698 million project is now starting to provide hints of what it will look like when it is completed. "The first building will be finished in the summer of 2022," says Sharon Gross, executive director of campus redevelopment. "And the new patient tower will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2022. Once licensed, the plan is to move the patients to the new tower in January 2023." Gross says it's exciting to see how the project is taking form. "The frontage is on the lobby building, soon the elevators will be working, and on the 101 freeway going west you can really see the progress of the new patient tower. Everything is really taking shape." WHAT IS COMING … The first building that will be finished as part of Phase I will hold a new lobby, a gift shop and an admitting area. At the same time, in May or June 2022, the second-floor 22-bed prep and recovery area and waiting area will open. Phase II will see the opening of the chapel and Grab & Go, as well as a new GI lab, the cardiology department and the nuclear medicine department. The new patient tower will house a 32-bed emergency department on the first floor—more than doubling the current 15-bed department. All the tower rooms will be private, each with a sofa bed and recliner. The diagnostic and treatment building, which will start construction in 2023, will house the supply chain on the first floor and a 17-bed recovery area on the second floor. There will also be five new additional operating rooms built, one of them a hybrid operating room. Already in place, competed in October 2019, is a brand-new parking structure with EV charging stations. WHAT THE NEW CONSTRUCTION MEANS TO THE COMMUNITY The design of the new campus will make it more user-friendly and accessible. Says Gross, "It will provide easy access for our patients and visitors to our campus via Burbank and Clark Street. The new work on Burbank Boulevard will allow traffic to turn left out of the campus when the new patient tower opens, since lights and a crosswalk were added. This work was completed this past June. The location of our new emergency department will ease the way of our patients who need emergency services, as there is a drop-off area by the ED entrance." As Gross sums up the new development, "It will provide a comprehensive medical center with all private patient rooms, all with state-of-the-art equipment to better serve our community." To learn more about our Reimagined project, visit Providence.org/TarzanaReimagined. To support this project, please call the Tarzana Foundation at 818-757-4384. Reimagined: The New Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center As construction progresses, the beautiful new medical center is emerging.

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