Scripps Memorial Hospital on Genesee Avenue received city permission to move forward with its plans to build two hospital towers and a medical office building to replace the current hospital building that does not meet state seismic codes. The city’s Planning Commission unanimously approved the building plans on Sept. 17. City Council will not review the plans since no one appealed the project. Scripps plans to build two 313,000-square-foot hospital towers and a 141,400-square-foot office building on a 39-acre site at 9888 Genesee Ave. The new hospital will provide each patient with a private room – patients will no longer be separated with only a curtain. The new hospital will not lose beds in the transition, according to Scripps’ spokesperson Lisa Ohmstede. The two new towers will provide a total of 236 beds. Ohmstede declined to provide a cost estimate for the new construction. Construction on the new hospital is expected to begin July 2011, and doors are anticipated to open in July 2015.