PROMOTION — Champion’s Passage treatment recliner offers soft, radius lines for a more “at-home feeling” that fits flawlessly in a patient room or other health care setting. The Trendelenburg feature comes standard and is unmatched in efficiency and ease of operation. The Passage is ideal for use in oncology, surgery centers, dialysis, infusion therapies, patient rooms, long-term care environments and other treatment needs.
Tapati Bose, LEED AP recently became a registered architect. Bose has been with BJAC since 2007, offering services for education, research and municipal projects. Her responsibilities include handling LEED certification process for the North Carolina History Center at Tryon Palace. Currently, she is working on a project involving Hillsborough Hospital.
ETC Building & Design hired Neil Howry as the general superintendent for Northern California. Howry has worked in construction since 1994 when he started as a carpenter. Howry has served as superintendent at Centex Construction in Santa Monica, Calif. and more recently, lead superintendent at Clark Construction in Oakland, Calif.
Janis Cruz recently joined ETC Building & Design, an architecture firm specializing in health care, biotech and seismic retrofits, as the director of project management. Cruz has more than 17 years of experience in project management, seven of which have been focused on health care design and construction projects at Scripps Health and Rady Children’s Hospital, both in San Diego.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite a general trust in doctors using electronic health records and support for health information technology, a recent study found that consumers have persistent concerns that data breaches will occur.
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Optum, an information and technology-enabled health services business, launched a secure, cloud-based environment designed to help health care administrators communicate and collaborate more effectively to improve health outcomes.
The Optum health care cloud aims to help health professionals communicate and access essential health intelligence more efficiently, create and deploy health applications quickly and manage technology in their offices or across networks with ease, according to a statement from the company.
CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif. — The Acorn Family of Companies has officially changed its name to Morris Group International.
The new name will allow the company to better acknowledge and promote its diverse line of businesses, including Acorn Engineering Company, the founding company, as well as all of the other divisions formerly under the Acorn Family of Companies umbrella.
MINNEAPOLIS — A majority of health care facility administrators expect construction to increase in the next one to two years, according to a survey conducted by Mortenson Construction.
Conducted at the Fall 2011 Healthcare Design Conference in Nashville, Tenn., the survey questioned more than 300 conference attendees. Mortenson sponsored the event’s cyber café and surveyed attendees as they logged in to use the computers. Participants included health care administrators and facilities managers, architects, builders and suppliers.
Weyerhaeuser’s Trus Joist TJI joist line with Flak Jacket protection is designed to provide builders with a simple, cost-effective way to achieve one-hour floor/ceiling assemblies and to comply with the new 2012 IRC fire protection requirements, according to the company. The new TJI joists with Flak Jacket protection, reduce the need for gypsum or wallboard. Additionally, Weyerhaeuser provides the unit with a limited lifetime warranty.
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Juno Lighting Group launched the new Indy Performance Series LED Downlights for new construction, remodel and retrofit applications. The LED series features a hyperbolic reflector design to reduce glare, and a chip-on-board light engine technology that provides uniform illumination.
