By the Numbers
What it took to build VacaValley Hospital:
- 500,000 feet of electrical wire, or more than 83 miles
- 3,000 cubic yards of concrete for foundation and sidewalks, or 54,000 gallons
- 400 tons of structural steel (the weight of 14 city buses)
- 77,000 square feet of acoustic ceiling tiles (15 football fields)
- 1,400 gallons of paint (enough to fill a backyard swimming pool)
- Seven of 26 acres of available land used to build the hospital campus
In 1987 VacaValley Hospital opened with:
- 70,0000 square-feet
- 50 beds
- Six ICU beds
- A cafeteria
- Diagnostic imaging,included a CT scanner and nuclear medicine
- Emergency Department
- Surgery, lab and pharmacy departments