FARGO, N.D. — Senior living facilities tend to be outdated and rarely get attention in terms of design; however, St. Paul, Minn.-based Pope Architects recently earned several awards for its Danish Modern design of the $4 million, 18,500-square-foot renovation and expansion at the Elim Rehab and Care Center in Fargo.
HIRAM, Ga. — On March 15, Brasfield & Gorrie, a Birmingham, Ala.-based construction firm, celebrated the topping out of the $135 million WellStar Paulding Hospital project, scheduled for completion in January 2014.
With winter all but a memory, the plants, flowers and trees around health care facilities are springing back to life. And operations or environmental services directors are putting together spring landscaping plans as temperatures begin to rise.
YANTALO, Peru — Quality health care is making its way to the rainforest village of Yantalo, Peru.
CHICAGO — Last month, the 10-story 1.2 million-square-foot Center for Care and Discovery at the University of Chicago Medicine opened for patient use.
WORCESTER, Mass. — On Dec. 12, 2012 at 12:12 p.m., Boston-headquartered Suffolk Construction reached substantial completion of the $400 million Albert Sherman Center, a 516,000-square-foot biomedical research and education facility located on the University of Massachusetts Medical School campus in Worcester.
HERSHEY, Pa. — The new $239 million Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center was dedicated on Nov. 13 and saw its first patient in early January.
BRICK, N.J. — In early February, the $82 million Ocean Medical Center expansion project reached a milestone when it finished the final phase of the steel work that supports the structure after breaking ground in April 2012.
ORANGE, Calif. — Construction on the $558 million Children’s Tower II project at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) was completed in October, with 50 percent of the new facility opened for patients in early March. By the end of April, the entire new building will be in operation.
In response to smaller reimbursements, greater operational costs and more demanding record-keeping requirements, the delivery of health care is becoming increasingly tied to technology.
