Erdman to build new Curry General Hospital

GOLD BEACH, Oregon (April 7, 2014)

The Board of Directors for Curry Health District has selected by unanimous vote the Erdman Company, a Wisconsin-based national leader in healthcare consulting, facility planning, development and design-build, to build the new Curry General Hospital in Gold Beach.

Erdman Company has been designing and building healthcare facilities for 63 years, which, coincidentally is the age of the hospital they will be replacing. They have completed more than 4,600 healthcare projects, and in the last decade alone developed and constructed more than 550 healthcare facility projects with a value of more than $2.4 Billion.

"We're very excited to be working with Erdman on this project," said Curry Health Network CEO Andrew Bair. "Their team is knowledgeable and has vast experience focusing solely on healthcare facility planning, design and construction."

"We expect with Erdman that the community will have a healing environment that promotes greater well-being for our patients, and a hospital that is also operationally efficient," Bair added.

Erdman's record reflects that 99.5% of their projects are completed ahead of schedule, 98% are completed below budget, and their average change order rate is 1.42% - far below the industry average.

The Erdman team is onsite this week and has been meeting with the Board, Administration, and a Steering Committee as well as departmental managers.

Community Invitation to Town Hall Visioning Meetings

The community is invited and encouraged to attend upcoming visioning town hall meetings to offer input and ask questions about the new hospital. Meetings will be held in both Gold Beach and Port Orford. The first meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23 at the Gold Beach City Hall; and another at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 24 at the Port Orford City Hall.




PLEASE NOTE: These conceptual drawings by Erdman may or may not resemble the completed hospital. Decisions about site placement, number of floors, size, etc. have yet to be finalized. These are simply preliminary conceptual drawings.