Hunter
11/09/22
The University of Iowa will be asking the Board of Regents for another $16 million for upgrades to the main campus of its Hospitals and Clinics.
The Gazette reports that the figure is in addition to the hundreds of millions in new construction, renovations and expansions already planned or underway across its Johnson County campuses.
$8 million would be used to convert the second level of the south wing into 13 inpatient rooms to address capacity issues at the hospital.
The other requested money would be used to build a new opthalmology simulation lab on a lower level of Parking Ramp 4 and to modernize the elevator system at the UIHC. The three elevators specified in the request were last modernized over 20 years ago; the original machinery is already over 40 years old.
The ten-year master plan for the facility includes a new 842,000-gross-square-foot inpatient tower in Iowa City to deal with an expected need of nearly 1300 inpatient beds by the year 2031.