Readers have been asking for status updates on Bay Regional Medical Center, a Webster hospital project where construction has started, flat-lined and started again during the past several years.



Financial and other issues that ailed the hospital appear to be in remission. Construction of the 200 Blossom St. building is coming along nicely, developer Medistar Corp. reports.

Crews are in the final stages of enclosing the exterior building shell with concrete and tilt wall panels. Medistar expects to complete the remaining glass curtain wall soon after, completing the exterior shell next month. The entire project is expected to be complete by spring next year.

In other promising news, Medistar has secured Surgical Development Partners as the operator.

When complete, the nine-story tertiary, acute care hospital will house 104 beds — 90 medical/surgical inpatient beds and 14 Intensive care unit beds — and will be “readily expandable to 175 beds.”

The hospital will offer a full complement of medical and surgical clinical services, including women’s services, intensive care, a heart and cardiology department, orthopedics, nephrology, urology and pulmonology.

In August 2009, crews resumed working on the hospital after temporary financing snag and St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System’s decision to drop out of the project.

But even after construction resumed, readers reported slow progress.

How do you think the hospital will fare once it's open?