OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. — The Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier, Calif., earned the 2012 Franklin Award of Distinction for exceptional hospital and health system case management.
Recognized for its commitment to patient-centered care and holistic management, the hospital’s care management program is designed to provide a team-based approach to case management for the integrated health system’s patients and the community.
ARLINGTON, Va. — AECOM Technology Corp. earned national recognition for its design of the Mary Catherine Bunting Center at Mercy, a 700,000-square-foot replacement hospital in Baltimore, Md.
BISMARCK, N.D. — With the goal of putting tomorrow’s environmental principles into practice today, a new Upper Midwest four-story facility to house St. Alexius Medical Center’s non-patient care departments helped free up space on the rest of campus for clinical service.
BOSTON — The Boston Medical Center and seven affiliated health centers will join Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), which aims to promote the quality of care over the number of services provided.
Blue Cross Blue Shield established the contracts in January 2009 as a result of concerns with the fee-for-service reimbursement model, which, according to the health care network, unintentionally rewards doctors and hospitals for the quantity and complexity of services provided rather than the quality and outcomes of care.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Architecture firm Shepley Bulfinch of Boston was selected to design the physician-led plan for a new Children’s Hospital of Buffalo on its Niagara campus in Western New York.
BOSTON — Margulies Perruzzi Architects and Cutler Associates announced that the firms have been selected to design and construct a new medical office building in Holden, Mass. for Oriol Health Care.
Fred Miehl is a Certified Protection Professional with the security systems design consulting firm of Aggleton and Associates, Inc. He is a member of ASIS, and a member of the IAHSS; he was a former board member of the International Association of Professional Security Consultants (IAPSC). Miehl has been planning and designing security systems for more than 30 years.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A new wayfinding program at the recently renovated Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City is designed to push the envelope with state-of-the-art digital components.
ST. LOUIS — McCarthy Building Co. broke ground on a new $335 million, 825,000-square-foot hospital in Joplin, Mo., to replace the former tornado-stricken facility.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Christus Santa Rosa Health System, a nonprofit, Catholic faith-based health system, plans to open freestanding emergency centers in New Braunfels and San Antonio in an attempt to provide better access to emergency services.
The San Antonio location will be an 11,000-square-foot, 10-bed facility. The New Braunfels facility, at 12,000 square feet, will also house 10 beds. Both are expected to open later this year.
