In this age of transparency, healthcare architects are being just as diligent to deliver results, only from a different perspective: placing a premium on sunlight as well as the use of indoor and outdoor trees and plants. They’re also finding ways...
A potential merger unveiled last week in tiny Pottsville, Pa., was the latest in a string of possible deals that could face the scrutiny of federal antitrust enforcers pumped up by a rare, if mixed, victory challenging a hospital merger.
The House and Senate reached a compromise on legislation to reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program for another five years with an additional $35 billion, while rolling back a Bush administration directive that tightens enrollment...
A potential merger unveiled last week in tiny Pottsville, Pa., was the latest in a string of possible deals that could face the scrutiny of federal antitrust enforcers pumped up by a rare, if mixed, victory challenging a hospital merger.
As other hospitals and systems prepared to ask the federal government for permission to merge operations, bruised survivor Evanston (Ill.) Northwestern Healthcare filed a plan with Federal Trade Commission last week explaining how it plans to...
The Leapfrog Group’s second annual ranking of top hospitals struck the wrong chord among some hospital executives, who say the employer group is good at pointing fingers, but not at helping actual performance.
Healthcare executives point to higher incomes and a surplus of physicians as part of the reason why healthcare costs so much more in the Northeast than it does in other states.
In a series of speeches last week to debut the third and final piece of her healthcare reform platform, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) spanked the insurance lobby, the GOP and a White House that supports “tax...
Hospital leaders should help develop a communitywide or regional plan for people with behavioral-health disorders, and seek additional community funds to better address the increasing need for behavioral-health services at general...
The Greater Rochester (N.Y.) Independent Practice Association last week became only the second clinically integrated IPA to get a favorable advisory opinion to operate from the Federal Trade Commission’s healthcare division in its Bureau of...
An old saying urges lawyers to argue the law if the facts are against their case and argue the facts if the law is against it. Christi Sulzbach’s lawyer says the government can’t argue either against his client.
When materials managers at West Penn Allegheny Health System went looking a few years back for innovative methods for reducing supply-chain costs, they didn’t turn to the health system’s group purchasing organization for guidance. Instead, the...
In this age of transparency, healthcare architects are being just as diligent to deliver results, only from a different perspective: placing a premium on sunlight as well as the use of indoor and outdoor trees and plants. They’re also finding ways...
Looking at pictures of the Arizona Cancer Center’s new outpatient Peter and Paula Fasseas Cancer Clinic at University Medical Center North, there is no mistaking its location. It is unmistakably the Southwest desert.
The thing that affected this project the most is that it projected a feeling of wellness,” says Michael Smith, president and chief executive officer of Seattle-based Mahlum Architects and principal in charge of the new Providence Newberg (Ore.)...
In August 2005, a new hospital opened in Vancouver, Wash., and for the first time in its 150-year history, Southwest Washington Medical Center had competition. It looked to Seattle-based architects NBBJ for help facing up to the challenge.
In addition to the use of landscaping and natural light, another feature earning respect from this year’s judges is the effective blending of new and existing structures.
Located on a 44-acre campus in Brooklyn that included 20 buildings ranging in age from 50 to 100 years old, the Kings County Hospital Center was said to be confusing and often intimidating to patients, inefficient and costly to run, and not much to...
In a Long Island building where weapons-guidance systems were once made and that temporarily housed the first United Nations General Assembly, a young architect named Stanley Cole worked for the firm Harrison & Abramovitz designing a permanent home...
One of the designs receiving an award is for a facility that will never be built—at least not in the way originally planned. The American British Cowdray Cancer Center in Mexico City, which was to be “shoehorned” onto a site across the street from...
Judges praised the site plan of this project that links the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the new 550,000-square-foot Fletcher Allen Health Care ambulatory-care center with a new 70,000-square-foot medical education center and...
The design award judges would have been hard-pressed to find reasons not to recognize the designs for the Palomar Medical Center West, a Palomar Pomerado Health acute-care center to be built on the bluffs overlooking Escondido, Calif.
So which statistic are we to believe: 122,300 lives saved or 87% of hospitals failing to adopt well-established practices to prevent nosocomial infections?
Navigating the healthcare labyrinth while you’re sick is like trying to traverse Boston’s streets when you’re late for a meeting—an exercise rife with frustration and roadblocks.
I’ve just received a copy of a new book called The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly, who writes and speaks about how people live their lives. Reading it, it struck me as familiar in that many people are in the dream business, even if they...
