Nemschoff recently unveiled its Steps line, a transitional seating solution to accommodate waiting area designs. In collaboration with Brian Kane of Kane Design Studio, Nemschoff developed the unit’s flexible design to allow a sense of peace to patients and their visitors, according to the company.
Acuity Brands Inc. has expanded its LED indoor ambient lighting portfolio with the launch of the Lithonia Lighting STLED luminaire. The lumniaire features improved efficacy and delivers solid performance, design and user simplicity, according to the company. Its luminaire design complements other LED architectural lighting products from Acuity Brands. The embedded controls in the luminaire allows for continuous system performance monitoring for constant lumen maintenance and promoting simple "plug-and-play" network.
Shepley Bulfinch recently hired health care planning and design leader Mario Vieira as a principal at the firm. With 25 years of experience as a healthcare architect, Vieira has worked with community hospital clients throughout the East Coast. His assignments included a master plan and award-winning patient care tower for Cape Cod Hospital, inpatient and ambulatory projects for Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, CT, and the Southcoast Hospitals Group.
Gary Wilkinson, who joined KLMK in 2004, was named principal consultant for the company. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, Wilkinson manages projects at various facilities, including the Slidell Memorial Hospital, Princeton Baptist Medical Center, Southeast Alabama Medical Center and West Georgia Health System. In addition, he is leading the Transition Planning and Move Management Team for the Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children at Children’s of Alabama.
OAK BROOK, Ill. — The Federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced $218 million in awards to 26 state, regional, national or hospital organizations as part of a public-private collaboration to reduce the millions of preventable injuries and complications from healthcare-acquired conditions.
HOUSTON — Construction is under way on a new $15 million nursing school facility at Texas Tech University’s Health Sciences Center in Abilene, Texas, that could address the state’s increasing shortage of nurses.
The project is a partnership between the university system and Hendrick Health System a health service network serving Abilene and Midwestern Texas.
Robert A. Frank has been appointed to chief financial officer of the Weirton Medical Center. Frank, a health care industry veteran who has held various executive operational and financial management positions, is responsible for all finances including accounting, revenue cycle and budgeting.
WHR Architects recently promoted Joel Colwell, AIA, to principal. Colwell joined the firm in 2004 and spent the previous ten years on the client side as a facilities and project manager for a hospital in Louisiana.
FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Acadia Healthcare Co., a Franklin, Tenn.-based behavioral health facility network provider, signed a $91 million agreement to acquire three inpatient psychiatric hospitals from Haven Behavioral Healthcare.
The facilities — located in Tucson, Ariz., Wichita Falls, Texas, and Ada, Okla. —include a total of 166 acute inpatient psychiatric beds and total revenues of approximately $43 million for the 12-month period ended Sept. 30, 2011.
