Johns Hopkins & Perdana University to build 1000 bed teaching hospital

Medical Tourism MagIn collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Medicine International, Perdana University has completed the strategic programming and planning phase of a new healthcare system in Malaysia, led by a team comprised of Jones Lang LaSalle and Ayers Saint Gross.

The strategic planning process is, according to the planning team, the delivery model recipe which will create the final design for the 1,000-bed teaching hospital, medical university and research campus. The goal is to deliver the completed and fully-operational facility in late 2014 or early 2015.

Phase One will be comprised of a 600-bed all-private room teaching hospital (a first in Asia), 750,000 gross square feet of teaching space and 100,000 gross square feet of research space.

Ultimately, the new campus will consist of a three-million-square-foot complex containing a teaching hospital, medical education facilities, research facilities, administrative offices, and student support amenities.

The architectural design phase will commence with the selection of an architecture firm pending the finalization of an international design firm competition.

The new facility will be known as Perdana University Hospital and Graduate School of Medicine (PUGSOM) in Malaysia.

When completed, the ways in which medical care, teaching and research will be delivered in Southeast Asia will take quantum leaps forward.

The new development, being led by Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHMI) in collaboration with a Malaysian public-private partnership, will create the first fully-integrated private four-year graduate medical school and teaching hospital on the continent. It is also the first health system application in the world to incorporate Johns Hopkins' new interdisciplinary ‘Genes to Society' curriculum that melds science and teaching into a hospital.

The project is being developed 20 minutes south of downtown Kuala Lumpur in Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia by Chase Perdana Sdn Bhd.

"We envision a medical school and campus that focuses on investigative science to drive innovation and fuel clinical care delivery," said Sanford Wu, Assistant Director, Global Strategy, Johns Hopkins Medicine International. "We're implementing a new curriculum, in real time, for Perdana University in Malaysia."

Scot Latimer, Managing Director of the Healthcare Solutions group at Jones Lang LaSalle, led the planning effort. The Perdana University/Johns Hopkins Medicine International team is drawing from the experience of Latimer and the Ayers Saint Gross team.

Latimer has personally advised nine of the US News 2010 ‘Honor Roll' hospitals and five of the top 10 children's hospitals, and led planning of 30 million square feet of acute healthcare space within the last decade. Ayers Saint Gross has completed more than 125 campus master plans for colleges and universities.

"Perdana University will embrace breakthrough ways to teach, conduct research and deliver healthcare - not just in Malaysia, but across the globe," said Adam Gross, FAIA, principal at Ayers Saint Gross. "The physical plan for the new campus will be reciprocal with the mission of Johns Hopkins Medicine which is to balance and interweave the components of clinical care, teaching and research."