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.
ST. LOUIS — Designs are under state review on the new Frank R. Howard Memorial Hospital in Willits, Calif. to replace the original 80-year-old facility, which failed to meet the state’s seismic standards and the hospital’s growing space needs.
Lawrence E. Wetzel, PE, chairman of the board of Air Innovations Inc., was recently honored with the HPAC Engineering magazine’s Engineer of the Year award. A licensed professional engineer in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and California, Wetzel holds contractors’ licenses in those states as well as in Florida and Virginia. Additionally, he has seven U.S. patents and one European patent, with other patents pending in Europe and Canada.
KLMK Group Inc., a healthcare facility advisory firm, named Tim McCurley as principal consultant. McCurley joined KLMK in 2003. Based in Owensboro, Ky., he currently leads the KLMK onsite team dedicated to the Owensboro Medical Health System project.
KLMK Group Inc., a healthcare facility advisory firm, named Brad Durham as a principal consultant.
Durham, who joined KLMK in 2004, is currently leading the onsite team at Children’s of Alabama. Durham is based in Birmingham, Ala., where the new Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children, a 788,000 square foot replacement facility, is located.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — In an effort to improve coordination and reduce medical errors caused by communication breakdowns, the San Jacinto Methodist Hospital (SJMH) in Baytown, Texas, will deploy a new PerfectServe clinical communication and information delivery platform system in early 2012.
RICHMOND, Va. — The new Phoebe Sumter Medical Center, a 183,000-square foot replacement hospital for a tornado-ravished facility, recently opened its doors in Americus, Ga.
On March 1, 2007, an EF-3 tornado hit the city of Americus causing millions of dollars in damage to the community — including the destruction of the Sumter Regional Hospital, owned and operated by the Americus & Sumter County Hospital Authority.
