## GROWTH AND EXPANSION 

In South Florida, UHS started construction on a new three-story patient tower at Wellington Regional Medical Center. The new addition will contain 80 private patient rooms, an eight-bed ICU step-down unit on each floor and additional space for existing services such as orthopedics, neurosurgery and cardiology. The expansion will be put into service in November 2012. 

## CONSTRUCTION EFFICIENCY FOR LOWER COST 

As it builds new hospitals and expands existing facilities, UHS Design & Construction uses Lean project management techniques to increase construction efficiency, shorten construction time and reduce the overall cost of the project. Integrated Project Delivery, an important component of the Lean process, brings together all major partners in each project during the design and planning phase so they can collaborate to improve the building process and eliminate waste to reduce cost and deliver the project more cost effectively. 

Lean techniques are already providing significant benefits for UHS. At Temecula Valley Hospital, the company will construct the new hospital building at a total cost that will be approximately 30 percent less than similar projects in California. 

At Wellington Regional Medical Center, Integrated Project Delivery identified the construction of patient bathrooms as a time consuming stage of the building process that slows the entire project. 

By prefabricating bathrooms offsite and installing the completed units as soon as the building’s framework is complete, UHS was able to cut six weeks from the construction schedule. As a result, the hospital will be able to open its new patient tower six weeks earlier, before its busy winter season. 

