Project Manager Lisa Hinton said UC Davis is now about halfway through design development for the $171.7 million, 11-acre facility and expects to start construction in early 2023.
Construction is expected to take about 18 months to complete, with tentative plans of occupying the new center in May 2025.
Hinton and Matt Aguilar, the director of IT facilities infrastructure, said vendors will be selected from the existing standard agreements and vendor lists for the majority of equipment purchased.
The three-story building will include 115 examination rooms, a pharmacy, an infusion suite and support services including imaging and radiology, which will allow UC Davis to consolidate most operations now housed in three leased facilities nearby.
“We’re just starting to get into what equipment and what sort of technology specific to the different departments we will have, but at a high level we’re looking at purchasing exam beds, medical exhaust hoods specific to a compounding pharmacy and imaging equipment,” she said, including PET scan and CT scan equipment, MRI units and DEXA — dual energy X-ray absorptiometry — equipment to measure bone density.
Aguilar said determining standard IT needs is also in early stages, but the size of the facility is much larger than the existing leased space, so they’re looking at between 300 and 400 voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephones, 200 medical carts, 30-40 status boards and some 1,000 computer monitors.
“IT has to look at the architecture and see how we will deliver services outside the main center (the existing UC Davis Medical Center near downtown Sacramento). The data systems and light and dark fiber connections will need to be put together in an integrated way to allow Folsom to work in conjunction with the main campus.”
He said light fiber refers to the standard AT&T circuits, while dark fiber lines will be placed underground to allow data to flow in a dedicated fashion.
Hinton said purchasing needs should be finalized sometime next year.
Future phases of the 38-acre Folsom Center for Health are expected to include an ambulatory surgery center, a 100-room hotel and a 30-bed “micro-hospital.” The center will be located near U.S. 50 and East Bidwell Street as part of the Folsom Ranch master-planned community that will eventually include about 10,000 homes.
Steve Telliano, assistant vice chancellor for strategic communications, said construction bids will be announced here, and specific project information also will be available online. RFQs will also be posted online.