OWENSBORO, Ky. — Owensboro Health and Los Angeles-based CBRE Healthcare recently broke ground on June 28 at three of Kentucky’s state-of-the-art One Healthplex outpatient facilities in Henderson, Madisonville and Muhlenberg.
MALVERN, Pa. — CertainTeed Ceilings, based in Malvern, announced a group purchasing agreement with Premier Inc., a leading health care improvement company. Effective Sept. 1, 2016 for the next three years, thousands of Premier health care provider members can take advantage of special pricing and terms for facility remodeling or construction utilizing the manufacturer’s extensive catalog of ceiling tiles, panels and systems.
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — In a partnership between Hunterdon Healthcare and Atlantic Health System, a new health services building is now an option for Somerset County residents.
FT. MYERS, Fla. — Lee Memorial Health System in Ft. Myers is will soon begin work on a significant expansion and renovation of the Gulf Coast Medical Center, also located in Fort Myers. System officials recently signed a contract with the joint venture of global construction firm Skanska and Gates Construction of Bonita Springs, Fla., to complete the $200 million construction portion of the project.
DALLAS — Parkland Health & Hospital System’s Hatcher Station Health Center recently celebrated its one-year anniversary. The $22 million facility sits on seven acres in South Dallas and replaced the old East Dallas Health Center.
“It has brightened up this part of the neighborhood. We hope it will lead to even more development,” said Rev. Donald R. Parish Sr. of True Lee Missionary Baptist Church, which is located directly behind the health center.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — At Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville, three new sanitation workers have arrived, but they won’t be wearing scrubs. Metallic robots from San Antonio, Texas-based company Xenex Disinfection Services were purchased for $300,000 — or $100,000 a piece — to destroy potential germs and bacteria, especially drug-resistant superbugs like Clostridium difficile, better known as C. Diff, and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
RESTON, Va. — To take on the traditional group purchasing organizations (GPO), four health systems and two environmental organizations joined forces to create a green-focused cooperative. Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock; San Francisco-based Dignity Health; La Crosse; Wis.-based Gundersen Health System; and Boston-based Partners HealthCare teamed up with Reston-based Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth, also in Reston, to launch their catalog this fall.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — For 30 years, the Ronald McDonald House provided a stable “home away from home” for families with children undergoing treatment at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital (YNHCH). But the number of patients has grown and will continue to grow due to the advanced care available at YNHCH, specifically its bone marrow transplant unit, organ transplantation unit and NICU.
BOSTON — As of September, patients, visitors and employees at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston will have a larger, removed cafeteria with a new name: Garden Café.
Chicago-based architect Bertrand Goldberg originally constructed the 13,500-square-foot dining room in the 1970s. With a cast-in-place concrete exterior and 4-foot-square windows, the cafeteria was a dark and enclosed space.
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lexington Medical Center is building a 545,000-square-foot, 10-story patient care tower constructed behind its existing north tower, making Lexington Medical Center the most modern hospital in South Carolina.
