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Private Hospital Firm Sets Industry Trends

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In the world of heavily regulated industries, companies often find themselves stuck between two less than appealing options: either stay completely within the broadest interpretation of regulations, possibly sacrificing cost-saving opportunities in the process, or chasing savings while exposing themselves to higher risk of government intervention. Some companies try to interpret regulations in the broadest way possible, attempting to gain an edge on their competitors, but most companies and even local government agencies tend to take a very conservative approach.

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New Hospitals Rise in Post-Katrina New Orleans

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NEW ORLEANS — Among the losses of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding it brought to the Gulf Coast, perhaps one of the greatest blows was the destruction of vital structures like a VA medical hospital in New Orleans, La. Now the Department of Veterans Affairs is constructing a replacement, which is intended to provide a massive upgrade over the previous facility. Major hurricanes have been known to devastate local medical services, leaving them crippled for years in some cases.

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Columbia University Earns Unique Pediatric Grant

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NEW YORK — Throughout the entirety of human medical history, one of the largest and most insidious enemies of human health and happiness has been the seemingly basic struggle against infection. Parents of small children wouldn’t be very surprised to hear that pediatric facilities provide an increased challenge in the battle for cleanliness.

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Tennessee Medical Center Addresses Readmissions

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — One of the classic problems in medical and educational institutions is that many of the people the organizations serve have almost no other resources to get those services from. In education you see this in studies concerning summer break. Students with a lot of resources at home tend to come back to school more prepared than when they left. Conversely, students with few resources at home can actually regress, failing to even maintain the progress they made during the previous school year.

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Perkins Eastman Is Designing a New Memorial Sloan-Kettering Surgery Center

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NEW YORK — The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is looking for state approval from the New York Public Health and Health Planning Council for a $339 million project.

The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Josie Robertson Surgery Center will be a new 16-story, 179,000-square-foot building constructed on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by the architectural firm Perkins Eastman, it will feature 12 operating rooms equipped to provide technologically advanced surgical care on an outpatient basis. The facility is scheduled for completion in 2015.

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Health Facility to Achieve LEED Silver

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Medical University of South Carolina has added an eleventh location; the MUSC Health East Cooper Facility.

The 80,000-square-foot outreach facility offers 92 treatment rooms with 60 physicians that rotate in and out of the building and a full line of imaging.

Services include: orthopedics, rheumatology, endocrinology, family medicine, neurology, pediatric neurology, ENT, neurosurgery, maternal-fetal wellness, oncology and cancer infusion services.

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