LANGLEY, Va. — Doctors and medical staff have recently moved into the renovated Langley Air Force Base hospital. The $62 million expansion project was named best project in a public sector building over $15 million by the Design Build Institute of America – Southeast Region during a ceremony last month.
FULLERTON, Calif. — A new $228 million health care facility that opened last month in Fullerton was completed five months early and more than 10 percent under the original construction budget.
SAN DIEGO — Three years after its groundbreaking, construction on the Scripps Prebys Cardiovascular Institute on the Scripps Health La Jolla, Calif., campus is complete. Scripps Health now has possession of the new hospital tower, taking it over from McCarthy Building Companies of St. Louis.
DURHAM, N.C. — The around-the-clock nature of hospitals can make lighting an expensive technology, which is why conserving energy and finding low-cost alternatives is especially important.
MANHASSET, N.Y. — The North Shore-LIJ Health System has launched the New York area’s first hospital-to-hospital helicopter emergency medical service, a program called SkyHealth.
SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio will soon be home to the largest outpatient ambulatory care center for the Department of Defense. Phase I of the four-phase Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center project at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas is now complete.
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. — Hazards caused by medical technology are far too common in hospitals, according to ECRI Institute, a 45-year-old nonprofit organization based in Plymouth Meeting that applies scientific, evidence-based research to analyze the health care industry.
SAN FRANCISCO — The University of California San Francisco (UC San Francisco) has announced that after more than 10 years of planning and construction, UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay will open on Feb. 1, 2015.
SANTA FE, N.M. — Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center is on its way to unveiling remodeled patient rooms.
NEW YORK — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is committing at least $1.6 billion to repair and upgrade damaged New York City public hospitals after Hurricane Sandy. The allocation is the second largest FEMA award ever.
