LA JOLLA, Calif. — Scripps Memorial Hospital broke ground on a six-story, $130 million office building. Part of Scripps Health’s $2 billion renovation plan, the John R. Anderson V. Medical Pavilion will house several medical specialists including cardiologists, gastroenterologists, neurologists and endocrinologists.
FAIRFIELD, Calif. — At Monday’s opening of the new $20 million Green Valley Health Plaza, NorthBay Healthcare announced two major construction projects slated for the organization’s Fairfield and Vacaville campuses. The two new construction projects will total $180 million.
The 132-bed North Bay Medical Center in Fairfield, Calif., will undergo $140 million in upgrades and will receive a new three-story wing and lobby entrance. The VacaValley Hospital in Vacaville, Calif., will construct a $40 million, 105,000-square-foot office building.
Mike Palmer has joined the Minneapolis office of Knutson Construction as a project manager. Palmer has nearly 30 years of experience in the construction industry and has worked on dozens of health care projects. Most recently, Palmer worked at a Minnesota-based construction company as a project manager. He has earned professional certification from the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) and from the American Hospital Association as a certified health care constructor.
Versa Wallcovering’s new Couture is an elegant wallcovering that brings a high-end, sophisticated textile aesthetic to walls, according to the company. The soft silky expression is updated and up-scaled for the wall with an open light and airy treatment. A wide palette of 21 luminous colors allows Couture to be applied in a variety of corporate, retail, health care and hospitality settings. The low-VOC Couture was made with Second-Look technology and contains 20 percent recycled content, including a minimum of 10 percent post-consumer material.
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. — For many hospitals and clinics, reducing recovery times, decreasing stress and cultivating happier employees tops the institutional wish list.
The rapidly evolving ways health care providers are caring for their patients and the new information on the built environment’s effect on the healing process is transforming health care design from the inside out.
COUER D’ALENE, Idaho — To keep up with a growing number of patients, Kootenai Health announced last week that it will expand its hospital with a $57 million, three-story addition and construct a new main hospital entryway.
The addition, which will break ground in either late summer or early fall, will increase patient beds by 10 percent and create much needed space. A recent facility assessment demonstrated a need for approximately 20 percent more space on the health care campus, according to Jon Ness, CEO of Kootenai Health.
PHILADELPHIA — As designers, manufacturers often consult us during the later stages of their product development process. They ask our opinion about new materials, patterns and colors, generally after they have already been developed in-house.
HOUSTON — Nora’s Home, a freestanding health care facility offering transplant patients and their families affordable and comfortable housing, celebrated its grand opening Feb 11.
