ATLANTA — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), based in Atlanta, launched the One and Only Campaign in April 2012, and discussed it in more depth on Nov. 13 during the organization’s monthly Public Health Grand Rounds webcast.
The campaign, led by the CDC and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition (SIPC) is meant to raise awareness for patients and health care providers about safe injection practices.
TORRANCE, Calif. — The new $450 million Torrance Memorial Medical Center Replacement Tower is currently being constructed at the existing Torrance Memorial Medical Center site, and it will replace the hospital’s original one, built in 1971.
PHILADELPHIA — In an effort to enhance pediatric care in one of Philadelphia’s poorest urban areas, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children will undergo a $110 million expansion, scheduled to begin this February.
Few systems are as critical to hospital operation and patient comfort as HVAC systems, which are driven by various rotating machines and components including blowers, fans, electric motors, belt drives and bearings.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — More than two years after construction began in November 2010, a new post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) clinic for veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars is scheduled to debut this spring at the Memphis Veterans’ Administration Medical Center in Tennessee.
Rich Driggs was named national director of construction management and design-build at Heery International. With more than 22 years of construction and real estate industry experience, Driggs comes to the company from Lend Lease Corporation, where he served as executive vice president and head of Integrated Projects—Americas.
CS Medical’s transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) probe storage cabinets are designed to hang endoscopes in order to protect them from contamination. Using positive-pressure filtered air, the cabinet disinfects TEE probes to minimize potential airborne particles within the unit. Tips and insertion tubes are hung freely inside the storage system while the control handles and connectors are held in secure positions. Two sizes are available: the AC-TE-03, which stores up to three probes, and the AC-TE-06, which stores up to six probes.
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. — The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board unanimously approved Memorial Medical Center’s $122.3 million expansion and renovation project on Dec. 10 in Bolingbrook.
ATLANTA — The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), headquartered in Atlanta, reported that the country is experiencing high levels of influenza-like-illness (ILI) in its FluView report, released on Jan. 4.
