Construction & Facilities Management
The 10 surgery and endoscopy suites will be double the size of those currently in use by the Beacon Health System facility.
Last month, Baylor Scott and White Health in Irving, Texas became the first health system in the country to integrate assistance dogs into its physical and cognitive therapy programs.
Rush University Medical Center in Chicago has unveiled plans for a $500 million outpatient center, as well as an overhaul of existing facilities in an ongoing effort to renovate and expand.
With the signature still wet on the bill, the National Defense Authorization Act will provide $80 million for the construction of a new 102,000 square-foot medical facility in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
The Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento recently opened the Anderson Lucchetti Women's and Children's Center, an $812 million medical expansion project comprising nearly 1 million square feet of space for patient care.
Convenient Care Center emergency care, laboratory services, a breast center, physical therapy center and a primary care center on the site.
Milwaukee medical office developer Landmark Healthcare Facilities this week picked up a $33.5 million mortgage by Healthcare Financial Services to build a 90,000-square-foot medical office building in Kansas City, Missouri.
Healthcare construction nationwide is booming, with about $97 billion in projects for new hospitals, expansions and off-campus clinics and medical offices currently underway.
Because hospital-acquired infections are a common complication and extend inpatient stays, hospitals actually save money by building costly, single-patient rooms, according to a new study by Cornell University.
Proposed Environmental Protection Agency rules for the disposal of hazardous waste pharmaceuticals will prevent hospitals and other healthcare facilities from flushing drugs down the toilet or drain.