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Kaleida/UB project halfway there

Business First
Monday, February 21, 2011

Kaleida Health and the University at Buffalo’s $291 million construction project is on time, on budget and now 50 percent complete.

Officials from the HMO provided an update Monday on the heart vascular institute and research complex that is being attached to Buffalo General Hospital. The project has been under construction since September 2009. The first portion of the structure, housing the emergency department, is expected to open in November.

In all the building will consist of Kaleida’s $173 million merger of its cardiac, stroke and vascular programs as well as UB’s $118 million Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC) and a UB Biosciences Incubator.

As the construction continues, a branding study is underway to name the new building and the new medical campus.

When complete, the facility — including Buffalo General’s main bed tower — will house nearly 600 patient beds, 30 operating rooms, 17 interventional labs for cardiac, vascular and neurosurgical procedures, as well as four CT scanners and four MRIs.