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With its high overhead and crucial status as a revenue generator, the operating room is a prime target for process improvements that will lead to margin improvements. To achieve that [...]

St. Joseph's Community Hospital of West Bend (Wis.) is building a replacement facility using more than bricks and mortar. The cornerstone of the $55 million project is patient safety. For [...]

* Memorial Healthcare System, Hollywood, Fla., received state approval to build the 100-bed, acute-care Memorial Hospital Miramar (Fla.) scheduled to open in mid-2005. * University of Michigan Health System, Ann [...]

* HCA, Nashville, will break ground in November on a $44 million heart hospital at CJW Medical Center, Richmond, Va. The 24-bed heart hospital is expected to be completed in [...]

* Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women, Memphis, opened in May, one of only approximately 15 freestanding women's hospitals in the nation. The Baptist Women's Hospital, modeled after Woman's Hospital, Baton [...]

* The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia launched a construction project that will nearly double the size of the main campus over the next five years. The projected cost of the [...]

* PROJECTS * Construction has begun on the Skaggs Outpatient Center, a new 115,000-square-foot, five-story medical structure adjacent to Skaggs Community Health Center, a 111-bed community hospital in Branson, Mo. [...]

At a time when the life cycle of new medical equipment often can be measured in months, hospitals are scrambling to keep up with the skyrocketing costs of new technology--and [...]

The perks include valet parking, a concierge, curbside escort service, private waiting areas, Starbucks coffee, hardwood floors. An airport business lounge? A four star hotel? A Fifth Avenue boutique? In [...]

Avera McKennan Hospital, Sioux Falls, S.D., needed a place to expand last summer. Sioux Falls needed something else--affordable housing in this rapidly growing community. With a little creative thinking and [...]

Administrators at many smaller hospitals in California are trembling at the costly prospect of retrofitting their buildings in anticipation of the next big earthquake. But one inner-city hospital is way [...]

Collaboration among those who design and build hospitals is a good foundation. And when nurses, doctors and others who will actually use the facilities are consulted early on, the results [...]

There's plenty to keep hospital execs up nights pacing the floor--Medicare cutbacks, stingy managed care contracts, nursing shortages. So what tops their to-do list for this year? Expansion and new [...]

* On Oct. 15, the Cherokee (N.C.) Indian Hospital held a ribbon-cutting for the tribe's $80 million, 150,000-sq. ft. hospital facility. The project was launched nearly two years ago using [...]

Downtown Lewiston, Maine, had fallen on hard times, with few well-paying employers and numerous dilapidated buildings lining the streets. James Cassidy, president and CEO of St. Mary's Health System, admits [...]

To establish a culture of quality and safety, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has adopted both a centralized and decentralized approach to process improvement. The 855-bed teaching hospital's Strategic Plan 2006-2010 calls [...]

The Howard Charitable Foundation announced a $30 million gift to Scripps Health toward a $430 million cardiovascular institute planned for the Scripps Memorial Hospital campus in La Jolla, Calif. The [...]

Celebration Health Medical Plaza, a four-story, 92,800-square-foot medical office building, opened in June on the campus of Florida Hospital Celebration (Fla.) Health. The plaza includes an ambulatory surgical center, a [...]

Medical City Children's, Dallas, increased its intensive care unit capacity by 50 percent with the opening of a $6 million pediatric and congenital heart surgery unit. The unit includes 20 [...]

Wheaton (Ill.) Franciscan Services will build an $80 million, 275,000-square-foot outpatient facility in an area of southwestern Wisconsin that includes the towns of Franklin and Oak Creek. The site will [...]

Kindred Healthcare Inc., which operates long-term acute care hospitals, opened Kindred Hospital Ocala in Florida, a 31-bed hospital within the Munroe Regional Medical Center. The company plans to open a [...]

Banner Health, Phoenix, will break ground this fall on a 165-bed medical center in Gilbert, Ariz. The $189 million, 360,000-square-foot medical center will include a five-story inpatient bed tower, a [...]

Children's Hospital and Health System and the Medical College of Wisconsin will build a $117 million joint research facility adjacent to their facilities in [...]

Kaiser Permanente Santa Teresa Medical Center, San Jose, Calif., completed a 17,500-square-foot emergency department replacement building. It includes a total of 27 treatment bays and four triage rooms. SmithGroup was [...]

* St. David's Healthcare Partnership, Austin, Texas, announced $100 million in expansion projects as the second phase of its "Care Initiative." Since 1997, St. David's has committed $460 million to [...]

Anne Arundel Health System, Annapolis, Md., launched an intensive nine-month planning process to expand its medical facilities in Annapolis, and possibly beyond. The organization is creating a strategic plan called [...]

Mercy Medical Center, Roseburg, Ore., broke ground on a $27.5 million expansion and renovation project consisting of 96,000 square feet of new construction, including an emergency department addition; an addition [...]

* Kindred Healthcare, Louisville, Ky., plans to open a 31-bed, long-term acute care hospital within Albuquerque (N.M.) Regional Medical Center. Albuquerque Regional is part of Sandia Health System, which is [...]

The Georgia Cancer Center for Excellence at Grady Health System, Atlanta, opened March 1. The 65,000-squarefoot, $31.6 million project went from conception to completion in just over a year, which [...]

* Groundbreaking ceremonies were held Feb. 13 for the Neurologic & Orthopedic Institute of Chicago. It will feature 10 operating suites, 18 ICU beds, 45 medical/surgical beds and 15 rehab [...]

* Cascade Health Services awarded a contract to Skanska USA Building Inc., to expand and renovate two hospital campuses in Oregon--St. Charles Medical Center, Bend, and Central Oregon Community Hospital, [...]

Covenant Healthcare System, a member of Wheaton Franciscan Services Inc., Wheaton, Ill., began construction of a $38 million comprehensive outpatient care center and parking facility in Wauwatosa, Wis., to consolidate [...]

* George Washington University Hospital, Washington, D.C., plans to build a $100 million, 371-bed hospital, the first new hospital in the D.C. area in 20 years. Executives say the hospital [...]

Central Suffolk Hospital (Riverhead, N.Y.) rebuilt its emergency room with volunteer labor from the community. While the reconstruction was taking place, the emergency room services were temporarily relocated., An overcrowded emergency department was a familiar sight at Central Suffolk Hospital, Riverhead, N.Y. Nurses and physicians were always bumping into each other in the tight ED at the 214-bed [...]

* WakeMed, a 752-bed hospital located in Raleigh, N.C., opened The Health Park at WakeMed, a 40,000-square-foot, glass-domed rehabilitation facility. * The Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City, opened [...]

Thanks to compulsive buying, cheered on by my daughter when she was a tot, my holiday Snow Village collection--miniature, lighted houses and shops recalling a simpler time in American life--is [...]

UCLA Health System's 50,000-square-foot outpatient surgery and medical building is to open this spring in Santa Monica, Calif. The facility was developed by the Nautilus Group and designed by Michael [...]

The UCLA Health System dedicated its new $572 million Santa Monica, Calif., campus on Sept. 9. The campus features the UCLA Medical Center. Santa Monica; a branch of Mattel Children's [...]

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University will build a $90 million research center focusing on pediatric health. The 196,000-square-foot facility will be built on the Emory campus. In January, [...]

CITATION OF MERIT 2008 Saint Vincent Health Center, Erie, Pa. The road to quality at Saint Vincent Health Center has been full of twists and turns, for years failing to [...]

Hendricks Regional Health broke ground on a $60 million, 205,000-square-foot addition to the Danville (Ind.) hospital. The three-story addition will include 37 private pre- and post-surgery patient rooms, six operating [...]

The Harris County Hospital District broke ground on two health centers, a $13.5 million, 64,000-square-foot replacement facility for the Martin Luther King Health Center in Houston and the $13.9 million, [...]

Swedish, a nonprofit health care provider in Seattle, will build a $31.5 million outpatient center and medical office building. The five-story, 105,000-square-foot complex will house a new emergency department, medical [...]

* The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense have jointly launched a unique $130 million initiative to build the James A. Lovell VA-DoD Federal Health Care Facility [...]

The push toward accountability and transparency is driving quality improvement at Integris Baptist Medical Center. The 564-bed hospital is part of Integris Health, an 11-hospital system that posts quality, patient [...]

Fairview Health Services will build a $175 million addition to its Riverside campus in Minneapolis, creating a new, freestanding home for the University of Minnesota Children's Hospital Fairview. The facility, [...]

Parkland Health Hospital System, Dallas, opened the Simmons Ambulatory Surgery Center, the first new facility on Parkland's main campus in 20 years. The two-story surgery center will house six surgical [...]

Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas broke ground on a six-story patient-bed tower, part of a $150 million acute care expansion project on the hospital's campus. The Hamon Tower, which will open [...]

The Western Maryland Health System broke ground for a new regional medical center in Cumberland to replace its two current facilities, Memorial Hospital of Cumberland and Sacred Heart Hospital. Construction [...]

Mission Children's Hospital, Asheville, N.C., opened the $13 million, 70,000-square-foot Reuter Children's Outpatient Center in August. The two-level building resembles a mountain lodge and includes 26 exam rooms, the Zeis [...]