July 29, 2015
Barnabas Health, RWJ Health System to Merge
WEST ORANGE, N.J. — Barnabas Health and Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Health System, two leading health systems in New Jersey, have agreed to merge, creating the state’s largest health system and one of the largest in the nation.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Opens Buerger Center
PHILADELPHIA — The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) opened the doors at the new Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care on July 27.
Bill to Ban VA Hospital Construction Moves Forward
WASHINGTON — A bill to strip the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from managing construction projects more than $100 million cleared a legislative hurdle on July 22. The bill passed the House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Health on a unanimous voice vote.
The bill, HR. 3106, the Construction Reform Act of 2015, strips the VA of all construction management authority on projects more than $100 million and transfers it to non-VA federal entities, such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or the General Services Administration (GSA).
Mercy Health Muskegon Submits New Consolidation Plan
MUSKEGON, Mich. — Mercy Health Muskegon in Michigan has announced a timeline for the nine-story consolidation project to bring Hackley Health System and Mercy Health Partners onto one campus after the companies merged in 2008.
Daniel Becker
HGA Architects and Engineers (HGA) hired Daniel Becker, AIA, ACHA, LEED AP, as associate vice president and senior project manager for the health care practice group in Milwaukee. He will manage team processes and client relations for health care projects nationally and regionally. Becker has more than 30 years’ health care architecture experience. He currently is working on projects for St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Kentucky and ThedaCare in Wisconsin.