Good Samaritan Hospital fine-tunes plans for San Jose campus revamp

SAN JOSE — New medical office buildings are slated to replace several older structures as part of the proposed revamp and redevelopment of the Good Samaritan Hospital campus in San Jose, city documents show.

Two big medical office buildings will sprout after construction crews bulldoze numerous low-slung office sites as part of one segment of the Good Sam campus project at 2505 Samaritan Drive, according to the planning files.

Separately, a smaller medical office will rise at the site of an existing office building at 2512 Samaritan Court, the development proposal states.

Each of the two big office buildings will total 156,800 square feet and will both be six stories, the planning documents show. That would produce a combined square footage of 313,600 square feet at the 2505 Samaritan site.

This component of the project that’s planned for a 6.5-acre site at 2505 Samaritan would demolish seven one-story office buildings that together total 51,100 square feet.

The two office buildings will be served by a new parking structure. A surface parking lot would be razed.

Only one of the new medical office buildings would be built in the first phase of this part of the project. The project plans didn’t specify the starting date of this component of the project.

At the 2512 Samaritan site, a three-story medical office building totaling 46,000 square feet would replace a one-story medical office that totals 20,700 square feet, the planning documents show.

This smaller office building also would be served by a parking structure.

These medical office development projects are part of a huge redevelopment and renovation effort at the Good Samaritan campus in San Jose.

Good Samaritan is eyeing a big increase in hospital beds as part of its plan to triple the size of its existing healthcare campus in San Jose.

At present, Good Samaritan Hospital accommodates 273 beds on the grounds of the healthcare organization’s campus at 2425 Samaritan Drive in southwest San Jose.

Once complete, the new campus would contain 419 beds, documents on file with city officials show. Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare owns the medical facilities.

HCA Healthcare is seeking the massive redevelopment to address an array of seismic retrofit requirements as mandated by California SB 1953, to modernize the hospital facilities and to improve access to comprehensive healthcare for the community.

Once all of the phases of the huge project are complete, the total building area at the future Good Samaritan medical complex would be slightly under 1.37 million square feet, compared with the current campus which totals 450,700 square feet, the city plans show.

That’s slightly more than three times the size of the existing campus, according to the plans filed by Good Samaritan Hospital.

The project’s initial phase would be the expansion of the diagnostic and treatment functions, and to shift some support services to the existing main hospital building, the planning documents state.

Construction of the first phase of the expansion should be complete by 2029, according to the proposal.

The hospital rooms in the new main medical center are likely to be considerably larger than the existing rooms.