As healthcare construction costs continue to escalate, it's become generally accepted that typical general acute-care hospitals will cost about $1 million a bed—except in California.
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The new replacement naval hospital at Camp Pendleton near San Diego will cost $451 million and will have only 67 beds. But with almost 2,000 outpatient and 131 emergency department visits projected for the building each day, it's not meant to be a typical inpatient facility.
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The new Eagle Butte Health Center in South Dakota is set to open for business this week. The 10-bed, 138,000-square-foot Indian Health Service facility was paid for with $84.5 million from the stimulus law.
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You've gotten used to seeing it on your refrigerator and on your computer printer for years now. According to some experts, you'll soon be seeing the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star logo more and more on hospitals.
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Dr. John Byrne, chairman of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Cardiac Surgery, says he remembers the date April 4, 2005, as if it were the birthday of one of his children.That was the day Nashville-based VUMC's first cardiac surgery/invasive cardiology hybrid operating room opened—after six months of weekly meetings with architects—and Byrne's life hasn't been the same since.“Our hybrid OR was among the first in the country,” Byrne says.
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According to Craig Knowles, three out of four people visiting a hospital are heading toward a destination they've never been to before. Not surprisingly then, he says, one of the biggest complaints hospital visitors have is getting lost.
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A topping-off ceremony was held July 5 to commemorate the placement of the final 1,200-pound steel beam in the new 12-story, 349-bed Kaiser Permanente Oakland (Calif.) Medical Center, scheduled to open in 2014.
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The Havasu Regional Medical Center, a 138-bed hospital in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., reported that its newly opened 11,200-square-foot, eight-room labor and delivery wing “went from blueprints to babies” in 16 weeks using the “component construction” method.
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The new $140 million Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Hollywood, Fla., is scheduled to open July 21 and is part of the Hollywood-based, five-hospital Memorial Healthcare System.
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