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Design Awards judge Agnessa Todorova calls the Chief Andrew Isaac Health Center her favorite project and describes it as emotional, small-scale and modern yet traditional in a natural setting.This didn't happen by accident.
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Designers tried to put themselves in the shoes of cancer patients when they planned the Hughes Cancer Center, says Andrew Jarvis, principal with EwingCole architects, adding that cancer patients are repeat visitors who get bored and need new things to look at.
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The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board levied sanctions worth about $2 million in fiscal 2013 on groups ranging from DuPage Medical Group, one of the largest physicians groups in the state, to Roseland Community Hospital, a financially struggling safety-net facility on Chicago's...
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The first construction projects with designs influenced by the healthcare-specific standards under the LEED program are just now being certified, with a Texas children's hospital leading the way.
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Ruth Rothstein, the former chief of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services who was credited for turning around what was once an outdated public health system in Chicago into one of the country's leading models and was considered a major figure among public hospital leaders, has died at the age...
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MAYWOOD, Ill.—Loyola University Chicago is scheduled to break ground Aug. 16 on a new $137 million medical research and education building at its Health Sciences Campus in Maywood. A collaborative project with Catholic Health East-Trinity—the parent of Loyola University Health...
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While the hospital construction boom is a well-documented phenomenon, less attention has been paid to a corollary trend: an uptick in hospital demolitions.
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A state health committee examining the impact of floods on New York hospitals learned an important lesson Thursday: Flood-mitigation measures can work.
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A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy told The Associated Press.
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INVERNESS, Fla.—The Citrus County Hospital Board narrowed the bidding for its struggling Citrus Memorial Health System to three for-profit suitors. The board received five proposals from four bidders looking to take over the hospital, which is saddled with $80 million in debt and $30...
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