OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A headwall designed exclusively for the University of California-San Diego Jacobs Medical Center received first prize in the Industrial and Life Science Design category for the International Design Awards (IDA). Overland Park-based Shield Casework, the manufacturer of the headwall, made the announcement July 31.
OREM, Utah — KLAS, a research and performance data provider for the health care market, released its 2014 Best in KLAS: Medical Equipment and Infrastructure report on July 29. The report revealed what thousands of health care providers chose as this year’s top-performing vendor solutions in 23 different medical equipment and infrastructure categories.
DETROIT — Detroit Medical Center’s new Heart Hospital, which held a grand opening celebration on July 29, is reportedly the first newly constructed hospital in Detroit in nearly 20 years.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Starting Friday, Wivenhoe Group, headquartered in Millstone Township, N.J., and Nashville-based Center for Healthcare Emergency Readiness (CHCER) will team up to develop an emergency readiness program for the health care industry.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Pomegranate Health Systems of Central Ohio broke ground last week on an addition to the existing psychiatric hospital and residential treatment facility located off Harmon Avenue in Columbus.
The health provider treats teens with serious mental and behavioral health disorders. The addition will provide two 10-bed residential units, transitional outpatient space and up to nine more offices. The new construction adds about 9,000 square feet to the existing 45,000-square-foot facility.
CHICAGO — JLL, a commercial real estate firm, is joining forces with CLEO Construction Management (CLEO) to enhance services for the western health care real estate sector.
DENVER — Construction for a 360-bed hospital in downtown Denver is going to be completed almost three months earlier than normal thanks to careful planning and prefabrication.
Minneapolis-based Mortensen began working on the $623 million, 831-square-foot Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital nearly three years ago. The construction company faced a tight 30-month schedule in order to get the hospital open and operational by December 2014. A timeline for a project this big is usually 36 months, but construction is expected to be complete this month.
DALLAS — A proposed 870-foot-long sky bridge could delay the opening of a $1.3 billion hospital project slated to open next year.
EAST LANSING, Mich. — A merger between two electronic health records providers in Michigan will provide access to health information for more than 5 million people in the state, making it one of the largest health information exchanges in the country.
ATLANTA — Soliant Health recently revealed on June 23 its Top 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals in the U.S. for 2014. The specialty health care staffing provider, part of Adecco Group, named McKay-Dee Hospital Center in Ogden, Utah, the winner.
