Construction & Facilities Management
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.
The project, announced on Sunday, will tack on 54,000 square feet to the current 119,000 square-foot structure and will encompass a new outpatient center on the first floor, a surgery suite on the second floor and private inpatient rooms on the third.
After years of losing money, River's Edge Hospital in St. Peter, Minnesota posted a profitable 2015 and is considering expanding the facility, an uncommon story for a rural, critical-access hospital.
The Jackson Health System's efforts to build a 100-bed hospital in Doral, Florida are being met with resistance by five hospitals in the state, which are challenging state regulators' approval of the facility.
The Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida will soon be home to a new lung restoration center, which physicians expect will help them effectively refurbish donated lungs for use in transplants.
More than 9,000 square feet will be added to the hospital's ER, which has been sorely needed since a mental health facility in the area shut.