CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Completed six months ahead of schedule, the new Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton will begin receiving patients in mid-December. The project is the largest undertaking by the Navy Department under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Completed six months ahead of schedule, the new Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton will begin receiving patients in mid-December. The project is the largest undertaking by the Navy Department under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
CINCINNATI — The Christ Hospital Joint and Spine Center will provide specialized care in a centralized location for orthopaedic, spine care, education and clinical outcomes research. Targeting a summer 2015 opening, the final beam for the building’s structural steelwork was placed Oct. 25.
BENSALEM, Pa. — Construction has begun on the 200,000-square-foot Lifestyle Healthcare Center. In celebration of the beginning of construction, Lifestyle Healthcare Group held a groundbreaking ceremony Oct. 24.
Slated for a 2015 opening, the $120 million health care facility will include a women’s center, orthopedics, general surgery, ophthalmology, cancer treatment, plastic surgery and several other medical services. The eight operating suites in the center will also support a variety of surgical procedures.
SAN FRANCISCO — Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) are presenting solutions to a potential upcoming shortage in health care providers.
By the year 2025, UCSF officials estimate that there will be a shortage of 52,000 primary care physicians in the United States. In a series of papers published in Health Affairs, doctors and administrators of UCSF offered potential solutions to close that shortage.
Jesse McCarter, AIA, has joined HDR Architecture’s Princeton, N.J. office as health care principal. The new principal holds 15 years of industry experience and has worked at health care firms such as Ellerbe Becket, Perkins Eastman and, most recently, HOK.
The Rubbermaid Hygen Disposable Microfiber System is the ideal solution for optimizing infection prevention, ensuring environmental hygiene and improving productivity, according to the company. The only disposable microfiber system with 99.9 percent microbe-removal claim, the system is recommended for health care applications including patient rooms, OR terminals, ERs, isolation rooms, nurses’ stations and X-ray stations. Traditional disposable products cannot remove microbes and leave behind a food source for live pathogens.
