As more than 800 crew members make their way onto the construction site each morning, the Wexner Medical Center Inpatient Hospital construction is nearly 80% complete. Currently, crews are working to connect the ground, first and second floors from The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC-James) to the new inpatient tower.
Construction progress includes:
- Steel arrives in June for the new Canopy.
- Underground work on storm sewers is ongoing for the first Phase of the Forecourt.
- Installing Palladiana Terrazzo flooring in the ground floor main lobby.
- Installing large revolving door to ground floor main lobby.
- Doors are installed in intensive care unit (ICU) rooms on level 10.
- Glass is installed above escalators for a view down to the ground floor from level two.
- Preparing to install supply air devices to the operating rooms on level four.
- Flooring is nearly complete on level four pre and post-operation rooms.
Scheduled to open in early 2026, the inpatient hospital has a total project cost of $1.9 billion. It includes up to 820 beds, 51 neonatal intensive care unit bassinets, state-of-the-art diagnostic, treatment and inpatient service areas, imaging, operating rooms and critical care and medical/surgical beds, among other features.