Construction & Facilities Management
Real estate investment trusts are hoping to bounce back from a rough, and somewhat puzzling, reversal of fortunes in 2015, though investors are already lining up to support companies dealing in healthcare deals.
The Marcus Foundation has awarded a $75 million gift to Piedmont Healthcare to bolster the growth of Piedmont Heart Institute, their well-known heart and vascular program, the system announced Friday. Additionally, the large monetary gift will facilitate the renewal of Piedmont's Atlanta campus through the establishment of the Marcus Heart and Vascular Center.
LAS VEGAS- HCA Far West Division, a network of hospitals and surgery centers in California and Nevada, on Tuesday broke ground on a new provider-based emergency facility called ER on the Lakes.
South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, New York has announced plans to construct a four-story, 58,000-square-foot addition to the southwest corner of the hospital. The project will also double the size of the Emergency Services Department, and modernize and expand its operating rooms.
Massachusetts Department of Public Health will require Boston Children's Hospital to coordinate with an independent firm and provide a cost analysis for a $1 billion expansion proposal that the healthcare facility floated last year.
University of Chicago Medicine is moving to address a long-standing lack of access to emergency, adult trauma and complex care for the city's South Side residents with a $269 million expansion project they call the "Get CARE Initiative". The system submitted the plan and a certificate of need to state regulators this week, UChicago Medicine said in a statement released Thursday.
Advocate Christ Medical Center in Chicago recently unveiled its new $256 million patient tower. Several years in the making, it's an eight-story, 326,000-square-foot structure housing a new birthing center, operating rooms, women's health and critical care units.
The Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at Sky Ridge Medical Center in Lone Tree, Colorado will open its new pediatric emergency department on Monday, the first dedicated pediatric ER of its kind on the hospital's campus, Sky Ridge Medical Center announced Wednesday.
Construction of a new patient tower at Jewish Hospital in Kenwood, Ohio -- part of an $80 million expansion -- is close to being completed, with hospital officials claiming it's about 75 percent finished.
DignityHealth next month will break ground on one of four small hospitals in Las Vegas, part of a plan to bring more care to underserved neighborhoods of the famous desert city.