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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The developers seeking to bring medical-products trade centers to Cleveland and Nashville don't feel they are in a race with one another, but just in case, they are each trying to stay a step ahead of the other.
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An April 18 groundbreaking ceremony was scheduled for the $1.2 billion University Medical Center in New Orleans. Demolition of existing buildings and clearing of the 34-acre construction site is expected to begin in June and last until October.
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An April 4 groundbreaking ceremony marked the beginning of construction for a $4 million, 9,000-square-foot addition at 24-bed Hoopeston (Ill.) Regional Health Center, which is expected to be completed in June 2012.
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The healthcare construction industry continues to show signs of rebounding from the Great Recession, according to Modern Healthcare's 32nd annual Construction & Design Survey.
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