SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. — Nearly 300 people gathered last week to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new Sierra Vista Regional Health Center (SVRHC) in Sierra Vista, Ariz. Officials broke ground on the new facility Oct. 16 with construction expected to begin on the 100-bed health care facility in November.
GREEN TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Mercy Health West Hospital held a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week to celebrate the upcoming opening of the $270 million hospital. The new facility, which will open to the public Nov. 10, will include a heart center, cancer center, birthing unit and orthopedics program.
COLUMBUS, Ga. — St. Francis Hospital unveiled its $110 million Women’s Hospital Tuesday in order to provide a consolidated space dedicated to women’s medical services.
BARRINGTON, Ill.—The $247 million Campus Modernization project at Advocate Good Shepherd recently broke ground on the largest renovation project in the hospital’s history.
After six years of planning, hospital officials gathered Oct. 2 to celebrate the beginning of construction, which will improve patient care by enhancing privacy, offering advanced technology and creating more convenient inpatient and outpatient services.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Children’s of Alabama’s Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children in Birmingham recently became the first health care facility in the state to earn LEED Gold certification.
BELLEVUE, Wash. — Eating Recovery Center (ERC) has signed a lease in the Overlake Medical Pavilion in Bellevue. It is now the seventh tenant in the nine-story LEED Silver-certified medical office building. The new lease brings the 191,050-square-foot building to 45 percent leased, according to Nashville, Tenn.-based developer Healthcare Realty.
The California Prison Hunger Strike was officially suspended on Sept. 5 — about 60 days after 30,000 inmates in California prisons started refusing state-issued meals. While the strike demands have yet to be met, the strike was suspended after two California state legislators announced that they would hold public hearings in the coming months on the state’s use of solitary confinement.
NEW YORK — A new report published by New York-based Perkins+Will shows that sustainable hospital design is beneficial, despite contradictory beliefs that LEED certification for hospitals is cost prohibitive. The study, titled LEED Certified Hospitals: Perspectives on Capital Cost Premiums and Operational Benefits, is the first to focus solely on the capital cost premium for hospitals to achieve LEED certification.
ATLANTA — The renovation and expansion project at Correll Cardiac Center, located in Atlanta, debuted on Sept. 4. The main goal of the project is to provide sufficient space to help aid the growing number of heart disease patients in Georgia, as heart disease is the leading cause of death in the state.
MISSION HILLS, Calif. — Originally planned to achieve LEED Silver certification, Facey Medical Group’s Mission Hills Clinic was recently awarded LEED Gold by the USGBC.
