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Four years after design planning began on a two-building, 750,000-square-foot expansion of Oregon Health & Science University‘s growing South Waterfront campus, a grand opening was held last week to celebrate completion of the structures: the 15-story Center for Health & Healing 2 (CHH2) building, and the 11-story Gary & Christine Rood Family Pavilion.

The $360 million project was designed by ZGF Architects and built by Hoffman Construction Co. via the integrated project delivery method. Ground was broken in 2016.

The CHH2 building features nearly 400,000 square feet of ambulatory surgery and clinic space that will house 700 OHSU staffers. It is connected to the Center for Health and Healing building one block north via a two-story sky bridge over Southwest Whitaker Street. The building’s lower floors are occupied by ambulatory care, outpatient surgery and invasive procedures space, and a 24-bed outpatient care unit, while its upper floors are dedicated to Knight Cancer Institute clinic, infusion and research space. The building’s ground floor programming includes a café and retail pharmacy space. Approximately 600 patients will be seen each day in the building, which is on track to attain Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold status.

One block east, across Southwest Bond Avenue, is the Rood Family Pavilion, which features five floors of lodging and amenity space for patients and their families over six floors of parking. The extended-stay lodging space includes a 38-room Ronald McDonald House for seriously ill children and their families and 38 additional units for adult patients. It also contains communal space, including a kitchen and dining room, a fitness room, a game room and a music/multimedia room, and an expansive rooftop garden and playground.

Construction of the Rood Family Pavilion building finished in December, and patients and their families began moving in the following month. The CHH2 portion of the project wrapped on March 15, and the first patients were seen in the building on Monday. The openings come on the heels of completion in September of the Knight Cancer Research Building – another major South Waterfront project for OHSU.