NEW ORLEANS – Among the losses of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding it brought to the Gulf Coast, perhaps one of the greatest blows was the destruction of vital structures like VA medical hospital in the New Orleans area. Now the Department of Veterans Affairs is constructing a replacement, which is intended as a massive upgrade over the previous facility.
TUCSON, Ariz. — The University of Arizona Medical Center, South Campus in Tucson, Ariz., provides critical support and relief for local law enforcement agencies while also providing a safe place for patient healing. The Los Angles office of Cannon Design worked on the $37.4 million project and focused on creating a normalized healing environment that would serve multiple facets of behavioral medicine.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Medical University of South Carolina has added an eleventh location; the MUSC Health East Cooper Facility.
The 80,000-square-foot outreach facility offers 92 treatment rooms with 60 physicians that rotate in and out of the building and a full line of imaging.
Services include: orthopedics, rheumatology, endocrinology, family medicine, neurology, pediatric neurology, ENT, neurosurgery, maternal-fetal wellness, oncology and cancer infusion services.
Hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and other health care facilities are required by state, local and national electrical codes to have adequate emergency standby power systems that can be online within seconds of a utility outage to supply critical loads.
Noise is a well-documented problem in hospitals.1 Sources include patients, staff and visitors talking, televisions, alarms, carts, doors, medical equipment, mechanical systems and more.
MARION, Va. — Mountain States Health Alliance’s (MSHA) new facility — Smyth County Community Hospital (SCCH) — has achieved LEED Silver. It marks the first project of its size in the county to achieve a LEED certification.
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas — The newly renovated birthing center at Christus New Braunfels Hospital in New Braunfels, Texas, was recently unveiled at a ceremony open to the public.
EAST NORRITON, Pa. — The new Einstein Medical Center Montgomery (EMCM) is the first new hospital to be built in Pennsylvania in over a decade and is set to open in September. EMCM will operate as a full service acute-care hospital for members of the community.
FRISCO, Texas — The Forest Park Medical Center in Frisco, Texas opened to the public after 18 months of construction beginning in January 2011 and ending in June of this year.
