Arizona a Hot Spot for Cancer Centers

PHOENIX — Construction is under way on the new Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center in Phoenix — a 131,000-square-foot building that will be located on the two-year-old Banner Gateway Medical Center campus, which already has 76-beds designated for cancer care.
 
Designed by the local office of international architectural firm Cannon Design, the BMAC center is slated to open sometime in 2011. The opening of the new facility will unite one of the country’s largest nonprofit hospital systems, Banner Health, with the University of Texas MD Ander

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University of Iowa plans Children’s Hospital

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Officials at the University of Iowa moved ahead with the application for a $100 million federal grant that would fund the construction of a new children’s hospital there.
 
Tom Moore, spokesman for the university, says the grant would pay a major portion of the costs for the hospital.

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$503 Million Texas Project

FORT HOOD, Texas — A joint venture of Balfour Beatty Construction and McCarthy Building Co., both with offices in Dallas, was awarded a $503 million fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a 944,000-square-foot hospital to replace the 45-year-old Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood.
 
Designed by international architectural firm HKS Architects and Wingler & Sharp, Architects & Planners, Inc.

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Balfour Beatty, McCarthy Awarded $351 Million Texas Contract

FORT HOOD — A joint venture of Balfour Beatty Construction and McCarthy Building Co., both with offices in Dallas, was awarded a $503 million fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a 944,000-square-foot hospital to replace the 45-year-old Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood.
 
Designed by international architectural firm HKS Architects and Wingler & Sharp, Architects & Planners, Inc.

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Balfour Beatty, McCarthy Awarded $351 Million Texas Contract

FORT HOOD — A joint venture of Balfour Beatty Construction and McCarthy Building Co., both with offices in Dallas, was awarded a $503 million fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a 944,000-square-foot hospital to replace the 45-year-old Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood.
 
Designed by international architectural firm HKS Architects and Wingler & Sharp, Architects & Planners, Inc.

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Work on 80-year-old Tower Replacement Begins

 
EVERGREEN PARK, Ill. — After an 18-month delay, Little Company of Mary Hospital has begun construction of a 300,000-square-foot replacement patient tower that will replace a tower built in 1929.
 
Expected to cost between $150 million and $180 million, the 300,000 square-foot wing and tower will be located on Little Company of Mary’s existing medical campus.

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Telehealth Network Launched in California

DAVIS, Calif. — A new statewide broadband network went live in August, ushering in a new era for more than 850 California-based hospitals and clinics that will one day be a part of the system.
 
While a reported 12 million Californian’s live in unconnected and underserved areas of the state, the California Telehealth Network will begin with only 50 participants, activated over the next several months, according to CTN officials.

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