Hunstman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah is pleased to announce a major hospital expansion: The Kathryn F. Kirk Center for Comprehensive Cancer Care and Women’s Cancers at HCI. The new patient care facility will extend from the north end of HCI’s buildings on the campus of the U of U in Salt Lake City. Located within the U of U Health medical infrastructure on campus, the expansion will allow the HCI to grow by 220,000 square feet and add 48 new inpatient hospital rooms. It will include four floors of clinical space, an expanded wellness and integrative health center, two floors of faculty offices and two floors available for future build-out based on patient needs. The Kathryn F. Kirk Center for Comprehensive Cancer Care and Women’s Cancers will increase HCI’s clinical care capacity by 50%. More information about the project and its major contributors is available here.
Anticipated to open to patients in mid-2023
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Project Updates
Concrete and Steel Work
Tunnel work and insulation during the concrete and steel stage, July 2021.
Framing of exterior walls, July 2021.
Concrete pours on roof level, August 2021.
Drone shot of the Kathryn F. Kirk Center for Comprehensive Cancer Care and Women’s Cancers in the early structural steel stage.
Alternate angle drone shot of the Kathryn F. Kirk Center for Comprehensive Cancer Care and Women’s Cancers.
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Phase 2 (completed): Circle of Hope Drive relocation
Construction on the temporary Circle of Hope Drive roadway has been completed. This temporary solution will remain in place until 2022, and will keep vehicle access open to the front door of the Huntsman Cancer Institute, including hospital and research building entrances, as well as access to the Northeast Parking Structure. See map below for details of the temporary Circle of Hope Drive: 
Reminder: Parking Lot 60 near the Children’s Center is closed indefinitely.
There will be a noticeable increase in construction-related traffic on North Medical Drive throughout the spring of 2020. Large amounts of soil will be exported from the construction site during the excavation phase of the project. Flaggers and appropriate traffic mitigation efforts are being put in place. Patient/other medical traffic will be given priority over all other traffic types. Dust control measures will be in place and compliance will be enforced.
Employees that use the Bonneville Shoreline Trail system and exit the BST from this area will need to find an alternate exit nearby. The nearest recommended exits are the Dry Creek Trailhead and the Red Butte Creek Road Trailhead. For more information on BST system routes, please refer to the BST website.