YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Humility of Mary Health Partners unveiled its new St. Elizabeth Robotic Surgery Center, which is part of a larger renovation project. The cosmetic upgrades to the unit are estimated at $125,000 and came on the heels of a $2.5 million investment in surgical equipment earlier this year.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Regional Medical Center at Memphis (MED) Board of Directors unanimously approved resolutions that will allow the hospital to proceed with an expansion plan. Approval from the Tennessee Health Services Development Agency is the next step in process to update the facility.
NEW YORK — The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is looking for state approval from the New York Public Health and Health Planning Council for a $339 million project.
The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Josie Robertson Surgery Center will be a new 16-story, 179,000-square-foot building constructed on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by the architectural firm Perkins Eastman, it will feature 12 operating rooms equipped to provide technologically advanced surgical care on an outpatient basis. The facility is scheduled for completion in 2015.
King StarBoard ST is a High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) sheet that provides a scratch-resistant surface, which is 25 percent stronger than the company’s original material. High scratch-resistance makes it appropriate in the construction of cabinets and furniture and its high-strength and stiffness makes it desirable for applications where less structural support is available. The building sheets are environmentally stabilized and developed to withstand harsh outdoor conditions, according to the company.
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.
