St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton is getting more medical office space and parking.
The Newport Beach office of St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Cos. has started work on a $118 million, 98,000-square-foot medical office building and 485-vehicle parking structure near the hospital.
St. Jude is one of three Orange County facilities owned by St. Joseph Health System, an Orange-based, Catholic, not-for-profit hospital operator.
The new building is set to have space for X-ray and outpatient surgery areas, as well as specialty practices including women’s health, orthopedics and sports medicine.
The building is designed to connect on three floors with an existing office building, accord-ing to McCarthy.
The parking structure is designed at nine levels and will link with an existing parking structure on two of those levels.
The project site is across Harbor Boulevard from St. Jude’s hospital campus and is next to St. Jude Medical Plaza, a medical office building.
Omaha, Neb.-based HDR Inc. designed the medical office building now under construction. Innovative Design Group Inc. of Irvine designed the parking structure.
McCarthy said it expects to finish in early 2010. The company is doing two other projects for St. Joseph: a patient care tower at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo and a parking structure.
Device Execs Make Ranking
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Some familiar faces in OC’s device industry recently were highlighted when Medical Device Link published its annual 100 notable people in the medical device industry.
Two leaders of Irvine-based companies, Michael Mussallem of Edwards Life-
sciences Corp. and Joe Kiani of Masimo Corp., made the list.
The magazine noted that Mussallem “engineered” Edwards’ spinoff eight years ago from Baxter International Inc. Mussallem is the only boss Edwards, a leading heart valve maker, has had in its history as a public company.
The magazine also noted Mussallem’s election for a two-year term as chair of AdvaMed, a Washington, D.C.-based industry group.
Masimo’s Kiani is in the midst of a two-year term as chairman of the Medical Device Manufacturers Association, the magazine said. It also noted Kiani was “instrumental in getting group purchasing organizations to reform their practices.”
Earlier this decade, Masimo gained media and Congress’ attention when it told of its lack of success in getting its patient monitors into hospitals through large purchasing groups such as Novation LLC of Irving, Texas and Premier Inc. of Charlotte, N.C.
Novation and Premier eventually signed contracts with Masimo.
Others also made the list.
One was Richard DeRisio, vice president of global regulatory affairs for Advanced Medical Optics Inc., the Santa Ana maker of eye devices and contact lens solutions. The magazine noted that DeRisio, who previous-ly was with San Antonio-based Kinetic Concepts Inc., has more than 25 years of
regulatory and professional management experience.
Ronald Sherman, cofounder and laboratory director of Monarch Labs LLC of Irvine, was named because of his efforts to introduce medicinal maggots for treating chronic wounds. Medical maggots were the first live animal to receive Food and Drug Administration clearance for use in medical treatment, according to the magazine.
The magazine also named Joe Panetta, chief executive of Biocom, a San Diego-based industry advocacy group that’s expanding its work in OC. Biocom has put on several device events in the county, including a device fair and regulatory roundtables.
Dispensing Solutions Buy
Dispensing Solutions Inc., a Santa Ana company that supplies repackaged drugs to doctors, government agencies and others, said late last month it bought Redi Rx, a Roswell, Ga.-based drug dispensing business, from Scottsdale-based Diversified Healthcare Services Inc. Terms weren’t disclosed.
Dispensing, a privately held company with 50 workers, said Redi Rx’s operations would be consolidated into its headquarters. Dispensing’s clients include jails, community health centers, hospitals, assisted living facilities and nursing homes.
Bits and Pieces:
Molina Healthcare Inc., based just over the county line in Long Beach, bought Florida NetPass LLC, a Hallandale, Fla.-based company that provides healthcare management and administrative services, for $42 million. Florida NetPass works with people enrolled in state government programs, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Richard Meier, president and chief operating officer of Advanced Medical Optics, is a new board member of Prevent Blindness America, a volunteer eye health and safety group. Meier has been with Advanced Medical Optics since its 2002 spinoff from Irvine-based drug maker Allergan Inc.
