SAN ANTONIO — In Texas, Forest Park Medical Center is taking the patient-based design concept to a whole new level, by building medical facilities using a hospitality-based focus, in terms of design, patient care and amenity offering
MONONA, Wis. — The UW Health Yahara Clinic in Monona lives and breathes efficiency.
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.
PORTLAND, Maine — Maine Medical Center in Portland debuted a new electronic health records system in early December. The “one patient, one record” system is part of a seven-year, $150 million technology upgrade said to be the state’s largest-ever capital investment in health care.
DALLAS — Seacrest Studios, a multimedia broadcast studio, debuted at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas with an initial broadcast on Nov. 14.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In early October, the Levine Cancer Institute’s (LCI) new research and administrative headquarters opened in Charlotte, N.C., on the campus of Carolinas HealthCare System’s (CHS) Carolinas Medical Center.
Hospital stays scare people due to several causes. First is a fear about the individual’s well-being. Will the treatment work? How much will it hurt?
