Groundbreaking at $72.6 Million Alabama Hospital

MOBILE, Ala. — The University of South Alabama Children’s and Women’s Hospital broke ground on a 195,000 square-foot expansion, while also announcing a major fundraising campaign to enhance the programs and services of the hospital.
 
The $72.6 million expansion, funded by the USA Health System and the USA Foundation, will nearly double the size of the hospital, adding neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, additional operating rooms, and larger patient rooms to better accommodate visitors and families.

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Hospital Receives LEED Gold Certification

TULSA, Okla. — The Bishop Building at St. Francis Hospital South in Tulsa, Okla., has received LEED-gold certification, according to hospital officials. The new five-story medical office building will include a central energy plant and five-level, 500-space parking structure spanning a total of 110,000 square feet.

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Work Under Way on Detroit Children’s Hospital

DETROIT — A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Pediatric Specialty Center in Detroit.
 
The new $43 million center is to be the first of $850 million in investment from Nashville based Vanguard Health Systems which will improve or expand some of Detroit Medical Center’s aging facilities.
 
Other projects will include a $170-million Children’s Hospital Tower.

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IBM, Aetna Partner to Create EHR System in Puerto Rico

NEW YORK — IBM, ActiveHealth, a division of Aetna, and Puerto Rican health care IT and cloud computing company Medens announced earlier this week the launch of a joint cloud health care network in Puerto Rico.

Medens will provide a cloud computing network while IBM will contribute its interoperable HIE (health information exchange) technology. Aetna will allow doctors to access medical data through ActiveHealth CareEngine, which culls patient data from medical and pharmacy claims and lab reports.

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Virginia Hospital Receives Coveted LEED Gold Designation

HARRISONBURG, Va.— Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg is the first inpatient healthcare facility in the state of Virginia, and the second of its size in the nation to receive LEED Gold Certification, according to reports.
 
Dennis Coffman, director of facility planning and development at RMH, called the certification a culmination of years of dedicated work to make sure the new 630,000-square-foot hospital would meet LEED guidelines.
 
“We are extremely pleased to be named the first ‘green’ hospita

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