Cancer Center
Research and clinical space are being programmed for the Cancer Center. Space planning for the research tower is nearing completion. Programming for the clinical space will be presented to The Nebraska Medical Center board at its November meeting.
In preparation for next year’s demolition of Swanson Hall and Lot 2 (the Visitor/Patient Parking Structure), the planning team has been meeting with people working in Swanson Hall to identify their space needs and determine where to relocate them.
Here’s a brief summary detailing the status of the project:
- Working with the department chairs, new space has been identified for all research staff. New locations will be announced in the near future.
- Clinical faculty have been inventoried on their space needs, and the planning team is in the process of matching faculty groups with the appropriate space.
- Once everyone in Swanson Hall has been relocated, work will begin on rerouting utility lines.
- A skywalk will be built from Lot 50 (the current employee parking lot) to the Durham Outpatient Center. Lot 50 will then become the new Patient/Visitor Parking Structure just before Lot 2 is demolished.
- New parking lots for employees will be built in an area bounded by Pacific Street on the south, 39th Street on the east, Mason Street on the north, and 40th Street on the west. Once these parking lots are completed, work can begin on the demolition of Lot 2.
Clinical Care (Ambulatory) project
A comprehensive clinical master plan is currently being developed. The project leadership team has begun its study of the ambulatory strategy across the enterprise from private practice offices to UNMC Physicians’ offices and across various geographies.
Here’s a brief summary detailing the status of the project:
- In partnership with Sg2, a Chicago firm that specializes in quality health care delivery, the team has completed a comprehensive quantitative analysis of campus-wide outpatient activity for all clinical services. This analysis resulted in a preliminary 10-year projected volume forecast, which took into account variables such as market dynamics, disease incidence and prevalence and population growth within the local and regional market.
- Following this analysis, Sg2 and the project leadership team interviewed and shared this analysis with each of the clinical services’ leaders across each of these programs. Those interviews served to further inform the volume forecast based upon the feedback and growth strategies identified within each of the programs.
- This combination of quantitative and qualitative data will be utilized to develop the strategic roadmap for the Ambulatory Care strategy as well as the overall master campus plan. The project leadership team expresses its appreciation to the more than 100 physicians and administrative leaders who participated in this process.
- In addition, RDG and HOK, the architectural and engineering firms who have been selected to begin the facility planning resulting from the Ambulatory Clinical Care discussions, are beginning to play a lead role in the facility planning effort.
- The months of September and October will continue to be filled with much activity surrounding the continuation of this planning effort, producing several tangible outcomes to inform the overall master campus plan for the future of the clinical enterprise.