Physician-owned Forest Park Medical Center slated to open in 2009
DALLAS---Ascension Group Architects, an Arlington, Texas-based firm known for designing large-scale medical projects, recently was awarded the design contract for Forest Park Medical Center in North Dallas. The full-scale medical/surgical hospital, estimated to have a total cost of $36.4 million, is expected to break ground in late January.
The 66,100-square-foot, two-story hospital will be built on the northeast corner of Central Expressway and Forest Lane. It will have 26 beds and eight operating suites. A large, multi-specialty group of dedicated Dallas-Fort Worth area physicians is developing the hospital. The operation manager will be Physician Synergy Group.
Forest Park is the first of several medical projects planned by the physician owners in the coming years.
Rod Booze, managing principal of Ascension, said Forest Park’s design is expected to be contemporary and progressive.
“Specifically, the edifice will amplify the medical excellence provided and be a recognizable landmark in the North Dallas area,” Booze said.
The hospital will offer bariatrics, spine care, gynecology, orthopedics, otolaryngology, pain management, general surgery, plastic surgery and craniofacial and reconstructive surgery when it opens in early-to-mid 2009. Managing partners include Drs. Richard Toussaint, Wade Barker, Robert Wyatt and Corazon Ramirez.
“Forest Park Medical Center physicians are returning the care back to health care,” Barker said.
“Forest Park Medical Center is a physician-driven health care project, which brings advanced, high tech medicine to a comfortable, hotel-like environment,” Toussaint said.
Forest Park’s program manager is The Staubach Co. Southwest Inc. and Staubach’s Derrick Evers, senior project manager, and his colleague, Brad Blankenship, a senior vice president, will oversee the project. Forest Park has a construction budget of more than $16 million.
“We are proud to partner with Ascension Group Architects in this endeavor,” Evers said. “We are looking forward to delivering this best-of-class hospital to the physicians and the community.”
The Richardson, Texas, office of Adolfson & Peterson Construction is the project’s general contractor.