New UIHC clinic in Coralville estimated at $53 million

A proposed ambulatory care clinic at the River Landing site in Coralville would cost about $53 million, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics officials told the state Board of Regents today.

Officials want to move ahead with planning on the new clinic so they can move many of the out-patient clinic services away from the crowded main hospital campus and into a more patient-friendly site in Coralville.

The completed medical office building would be 150,000 gross square feet, with 30,000 gross square feet to be initially finished, officials said today.  Hospital bonds and revenue will pay for the plan. Officials will seek regent approval to enter into contractual agreement with the City of Coralville for the Iowa River Landing project. The hope is to move clinical operations into the new facility in June 2012.

The clinic would include services such as general internal medicine, general pediatrics, women's health, cardiology, general surgery, urology and radiology.