In 2009, the Kettering Health Network – a comprehensive, non-profit health care network with four of the nation’s top 100 hospitals – commissioned the construction of a new facility, the Indu & Raj Soin Medical Center. The 80-bed, 276,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art hospital met a critical need for the Beavercreek, Ohio community, a rapidly growing suburb of Dayton.
Daryn Kumar is the new chief executive officer of Memorial Medical Center in Modesto, California where he previously managed the 423-bed hospital at the northeast corner of Briggsmore Avenue and Coffee Road. Kumar has worked for Sutter Health since 2004 and most recently served as interim CEO for Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento. He was also chief operating officer at Sutter Roseville Medical Center.
Dr. Daniel Jurak has been appointed to the board of directors at Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers. A family medicine physician who practices full time in Coal City, Jurak joined the medical staff at Morris Hospital in 1994. There, he has served in a number of leadership roles over the past 18 years, including vice president, president, and chief of family practice.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — In a study that is the first of its kind, a team of researchers is studying ways to make childbirth procedures more sustainable by examining the environmental impacts of childbirth.
With funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh have teamed up to improve sustainable childbirth procedures through vaginal delivery and birth by cesarean section.
CLEVELAND, Texas — Fees for medical services at Cleveland Regional Medical Center were recently lowered by 15 percent in an effort to save millions of dollars.
New Directions Health Systems LLC, the Louisville, Ky.-based company that owns and operates the facility, lowered the costs of all services in the following medical divisions: cardiopulmonary, labor and delivery, dietary, obstetrical, emergency and trauma, operating room and post anesthesia, intensive care, respiratory and medical and surgical.
HOUSTON, Texas — Hoar Construction recently became the first construction company to be endorsed by the Texas Hospital Association (THA).
The association was formed to help hospitals across Texas provide safe, quality and affordable health care through its HealthSHARE program, which extensively screens and endorses companies serving Texas hospitals.
Ortiz has more than 32 years of experience in the construction industry and served as National Health Care Provider’s Director of Facilities and Design for seven years, where he was responsible for overseeing design and construction activities in Colorado, Kansas, Texas and Ohio. He can be reached at 303.363.7101 or at mortiz@a-p.com.
NEW YORK — Manhattan-based Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center commissioned Seesmart Technologies Inc. to retrofit nearly 700 fixtures with LED tube lights, resulting in significant cost and energy savings, according to officials from the company.
Seesmart’s retrofit replaced nearly 700 fixtures at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. By switching from fluorescent T8s and T12s to Seesmart T8s in the facility’s parking garage, the hospital’s energy cost was reduced by almost 57 percent.
CORNING, N.Y. — The groundbreaking was held April 18 for the new $146 million Guthrie Corning Hospital, with construction on the 232,000-square-foot facility scheduled to begin in late June.
The hospital features 65 private rooms and is designed to be energy efficient and promote green operations. The new hospital will replace the outdated Denison Parkway facility, built in the early 1900s.
“This project truly represents a new era in patient care for the residents of the region,” said Shirley Magana, president of the Hospital.
