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Overview

Since 1952, the Marin General Hospital has served as a central hospital for Marin County and the North Bay, in general. In particularly its trauma care center has grown to be central to the region's healthcare infrastructure. It has had four major periods of expansion, the latest of which occurred in 2020.

Building History

Marin General Hospital opened in 1952 with an early addition made to the original building in 1961. Marin County's population grew by a factor of five between 1952 and 2020, requiring that the hospital keep pace with its surroundings' rapidly growing human scale, as well as stay au courant with continuous technological shifts in medicine. These shifts have been accelerated by advances in information processing and articifical intelligence in recent years.

By the 21st century, Marin General Hospital had grown to become an indispensable public health center for the North Bay section of the San Francisco Bay Area. As noted on its website: "As Marin’s only full-service, acute care hospital, we provide comprehensive care across all major service lines. Our level III trauma center and emergency department receives 70% of the county’s ambulance traffic, and we provide life-saving care for our stroke and heart attack patients. We also offer the only hospital-based labor and delivery unit in Marin." (See MyMarinHealth.org, "MarinHealth Medical Center," accessed 05/29/2024.)

Building Notes

Tel: 415.925.7000.

Alteration

Administrators appended three large additions to the building between 1961 and 2020. In 1961, a 116-bed wing was added to increase capacity in rapidly growing Marin County.

In 1989, a $32 million wing was added, known as the "Cedar Pavilion." Lathrop Construction served as the General Contractor for this renovation.

The hospital grew again in 2020 with the construction of a 260,000-square foot "hospital replacement building" known as the Oak Pavilion in 2020. Perkins Eastman Architects of New York, NY, led the Oak Pavilion's design team. The designers had a State of California legal mandate to meet new seismic standards by 2030, and the administration and its staff used the new law to reimagine its patient services, improve scalability, enhance seismic resilience, and reach stricter sustainability standards. The new hospital was expected to receive a high-level LEED Gold certification.

Perkins Eastman worked in tandem with McCarthy Building Companies, Incorporated, the general contractor. The McCarthy Building Companies, Incorporated, website noted that it completed construction in 10/2020. It said of its work: "The new building, which is five stories tall and encompasses 260,000 square foot of care space, features an emergency department, trauma center and an area devoted to psychiatric and 'high-security' patients. The building is home to 114 private patient rooms as well as six modern operating rooms. For this particular project, McCarthy applied its so-called EQUIP program, by which over 7,000 new pieces of medical equipment were procured, while an additional 1,169 pieces were transferred from the hospital’s existing buildings. The EQUIP model has the construction team work with vendors to ensure that equipment is tested and installed properly, so that minimal changes are needed later. The hospital’s exterior space features gardens, many of which will be viewable to patients and healthcare staff thanks to each patient room having room-length windows." (See Eric Althoff, HC+O News.com, "McCarthy Completes Build on California Hospital Facility," published 10/23/2020, accessed 05/29/2024.)

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