Construction starts on La Jolla medical office building

Rendering of the medical office building that is being constructed.

Photo by: Courtesy of Scripps Health

Created: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 12:52:00 PST

Updated: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 01:00:30 PST

LA JOLLA (CNS) - Construction got under way Wednesday in La Jolla on a six-story medical office building -- part of the remaking of the Scripps Memorial Hospital campus.

The $175 million Scripps Clinic John R. Anderson V Medical Pavilion will be used for specialty services like cardiology, gastroenterology, pulmonology, neurology, nephrology and endocrinology.

The building, slated for completion in 2016, will also include four catheterization labs that will allow physicians to perform certain cardiac procedures in an outpatient setting.

It is named for the son of longtime Scripps Health supporters Eileen and John "Jack" R. Anderson IV, who donated $25 million toward construction. John R. Anderson V, a Navy veteran, died of melanoma 10 years ago.

"We felt this donation would be an appropriate way to pay tribute to our son John and give others the opportunity to benefit from the medical expertise that our family has trusted over the past three decades," John Anderson IV said. "John had a lot of things in common with Scripps. He was a great thinker, an innovator. He was always trying to make life better for somebody else."

The elder Anderson and his wife have also supported programs at Scripps Clinic and Scripps Green Hospital. He is a retired Pasadena structural engineer who invented a form of pre-cast concrete construction that became an industry standard, according to Scripps Health.

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Construction starts on La Jolla medical office building