FACT SHEET

University Hospitals
Ahuja Medical Center Phase 2
ARCHITECT:  

HKS, Inc.

CONSTRUCTION MANAGER:  

To be determined

COST OF PROJECT:  

$200 million

GROUNDBREAKING (ESTIMATED DATE):   Fall 2019
COMPLETION (ESTIMATED DATE):  

2022

SIZE OF PHASE 2 BUILDINGS:   Five-floor hospital tower and two-floor
high-bay sports medicine complex at 64,000 sq. ft.

LOCATION:   3999 Richmond Road, Beachwood, Ohio 44122
NAMED FOR:  

 Philanthropist Monte Ahuja, his wife Usha, and their family in
recognition of their extraordinary leadership to University
Hospitals. Mr. Ahuja was UH Board Chairman at the time of the
opening of Phase 1. Naming opportunities will exist for Phase 2.

FUNDING:  

Bonds and philanthropy (to be announced at later dates)

 SERVICES IN PHASE 2:
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Labor and Delivery

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– Five labor and delivery rooms

– Performance center

– Four well-baby beds

– Outpatient rehab space

– Three triage beds

– 18 exam rooms

– Antepartum/postpartum

– Two diagnostic radiology units

– Five Level 2 nursery bays

– Convenient access to MRI

– Two C-section rooms

– Adjacent to operating rooms

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Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Level 2

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Expanded emergency room

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UH Ahuja Medical Center’s 10 operating suites.
The new ambulatory center will free operating

– Current ER is beyond capacity with 46,000+ visits

rooms for more complex inpatient cases.

E  xpanded women’s health center and

– New ambulatory center will add:

comprehensive breast health center

– Eight new operating rooms

– E  ight new exam rooms (for a total of 14 with six at

– 32 new pre- and post-op beds to current 65 bays

UH Minoff Health Center at Chagrin Highlands)
– T  wo new mammography units (for a total of six

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exam rooms to current clinic, which is near capacity

Center and three at UH Minoff Health Center);
all units will have tomosynthesis imaging
– T  wo new ultrasounds (added to current ultrasound

Expanded ambulatory services
–  Will add 10 UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute

when added to current one at UH Ahuja Medical
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Observation and short stay units
– F  ormer ER will be converted to 20-bed observation

at UH Ahuja Medical Center)

unit, resulting in 10 more beds than current unit

– Same-day mammography results

– N
  o current short-stay unit exists for stays less than
24 hours. Phase 2 will have such a unit.

– Next-day biopsy results
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New ambulatory surgery center
– C
  urrently, outpatient surgeries are performed in

– 30 beds from current 22 beds

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Largest sports medicine complex in Northeast Ohio

E  xpanded radiology capacity to meet demands of
emergency room, UH Harrington Heart & Vascular
Institute and sports medicine (orthopedics)
– W
  ill add a CT for total of three
– W
  ill add an MRI for total of two

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