PHILADELPHIA –
Penn Medicine will mark the next major construction milestone for its new hospital facility, the Pavilion, on
Saturday, July 8, 2017, as crews pour approximately
7,150 cubic yards of concrete – enough cement to fill a Goodyear Blimp – on the site’s foundation in West Philadelphia. During the 30-hour, nonstop pour, a steady stream of 715 trucks will line up on the South Street Bridge and Convention Avenue to deliver the concrete, which will be poured onto 965 tons of reinforcement steel that will also be a part of the building’s foundation. More than 120 construction crew members, site managers, and safety support personnel will also be on hand during the pour and to oversee clean-up.
The Pavilion, expected to be completed in 2021, will house 500 private patient rooms and 47 operating rooms in a 1.5 million square foot, 17-story facility on the former site of Penn Tower, across the street from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and adjacent to the medical campus’s outpatient hub, the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine. The Pavilion will house inpatient care for the Abramson Cancer Center, heart and vascular medicine and surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, as well as a new emergency department. The $1.5 billion facility will be the largest capital project in Penn’s history and Philadelphia’s most sophisticated and ambitious health care building project.
WHERE:
The Pavilion Construction Site
3400 Civic Center Blvd. (Across from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania)
Philadelphia, PA 19104
*Media to call Johanna Harvey at (215) 873-3870 for specific filming locations upon arrival
WHEN:
July 8, 2017
Best Time to Cover: 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Penn Medicine is one of the world’s leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, excellence in patient care, and community service. The organization consists of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Penn’s Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, founded in 1765 as the nation’s first medical school.
The Perelman School of Medicine is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $550 million awarded in the 2022 fiscal year. Home to a proud history of “firsts” in medicine, Penn Medicine teams have pioneered discoveries and innovations that have shaped modern medicine, including recent breakthroughs such as CAR T cell therapy for cancer and the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System’s patient care facilities stretch from the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania to the New Jersey shore. These include the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Chester County Hospital, Lancaster General Health, Penn Medicine Princeton Health, and Pennsylvania Hospital—the nation’s first hospital, founded in 1751. Additional facilities and enterprises include Good Shepherd Penn Partners, Penn Medicine at Home, Lancaster Behavioral Health Hospital, and Princeton House Behavioral Health, among others.
Penn Medicine is an $11.1 billion enterprise powered by more than 49,000 talented faculty and staff.