EDMONDS, Wash. — Swedish Health Services opened a new outpatient cancer center April 1 at its Edmonds campus. The new two-story, 17,102-square-foot facility was built in response to the growing needs of cancer-care services for people living in the south Snohomish and north King County areas.
There have been several shifts in the health care industry recently. The Affordable Care Act is most likely here to stay, which will drastically increase the number of insured people in need of care by 2014.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The design for the new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences building on the University at Buffalo’s (UB) Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus was unveiled in early April.
A recent study in health affairs, with support by the Advisory Board Company, expresses the efficiency of using observation units.
Deputy Vice-Mayor Angeleta Gray has been chosen to serve as commissioner for the Health Care District of Palm Beach County Board of Commissioners in Palm Springs, Fla. During her term, Gray will assist the district in ensuring that access is available to a comprehensive health care system and that the delivery of quality services is provided for the residents of Palm Beach County. She has been a member of the Delray Beach City Commission since 2009.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — The largest expansion ever for the University of Missouri Health Care (MU Health Care) was completed at University Hospital in Columbia.
With repair, large maintenance and renovation projects plaguing hospitals and medical centers, hospital administrators search for alternative construction procurement methods that are efficient, effective and flexible enough to meet their needs.
DALLAS — In mid-March, KLMK Group Inc., a provider of health care planning and facility-related advisory solutions, was awarded the contract for Facility Activation for Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Kahler Slater, based in Milwaukee, recently received three 2012 American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Wisconsin Design Excellence Awards for the architecture firm’s recent designs of hospital and clinic construction projects.
The Wisconsin chapter of the ASID presented the awards, which recognize outstanding interior design in categories such as corporate or office space, health care retail and hospitality.
Jim Noble, senior vice president and chief financial officer at Huntington Memorial Hospital, located in Pasadena, Calif., has been promoted to executive vice president, chief operating officer/chief financial officer, where he will oversee all of the hospital’s acute operations, as well as information technology, finance, ambulatory services and physician strategies.
