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Ellis Hospital Solves Emissions Complaints With New AHUs

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SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — The last place you need to make you sick is the hospital.

When Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, N.Y., a part of the Ellis Medicine health care system, faced vehicle exhaust emissions entering through fresh air intakes, administrators sought out a solution to the challenge.

The existing six-story facility, which was rebuilt in 2010, includes a fresh air intake under a covered area that serves a primary pick-up and drop-off point for patients entering and leaving the facility.

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Optum Takes Health Care to the Cloud

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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Optum, an information and technology-enabled health services business, launched a secure, cloud-based environment designed to help health care administrators communicate and collaborate more effectively to improve health outcomes.

The Optum health care cloud aims to help health professionals communicate and access essential health intelligence more efficiently, create and deploy health applications quickly and manage technology in their offices or across networks with ease, according to a statement from the company.

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Health Care Construction Expected to Increase

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MINNEAPOLIS — A majority of health care facility administrators expect construction to increase in the next one to two years, according to a survey conducted by Mortenson Construction.

Conducted at the Fall 2011 Healthcare Design Conference in Nashville, Tenn., the survey questioned more than 300 conference attendees. Mortenson sponsored the event’s cyber café and surveyed attendees as they logged in to use the computers. Participants included health care administrators and facilities managers, architects, builders and suppliers.

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Anne Hanenburg

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Anne M. Hanenburg is now a licensed landscape architect for SPVV Landscape Architects. Hanenburg specializes in site master planning, landscape and hardscape design, garden design for specialized populations, and irrigation system design. Her focus also includes design of entry and wayfinding signage and features for health care, continuing care and higher education commissions.

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Skanksa Partners With Prime Logic Partners to Improve IT Infrastructure

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NEW YORK — Construction management company Skanska USA formed a partnership earlier this year with Prime Logic Partners to help health care organizations improve their information technology infrastructures.

Skanska, based in New York City, provides construction management, preconstruction and design-build services to acute care hospitals, specialty outpatient centers and academic medical centers throughout the U.S.

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Improved High Speed Network to Improve Health Care for Rural and Underserved Illinois Patients

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A new $21 million fiber-optic medical network is under way for the Illinois Rural HealthNet, designed to increase access to advanced medical care for residents of rural and underserved areas across Illinois.

The Illinois Rural HealthNet (IRHN) — a nonprofit network of health care providers — signed a contract with Omaha, Neb.-based communications and security services provider G4S Technology to implement a system linking 85 rural health care entities to urban medical centers.

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Cleveland Regional Medical Center to Build New Facility

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CLEVELAND, Texas — A new medical facility is planned for Cleveland’s Timbercrest Medical Park as a joint project between New Directions Health Systems — the new management team for the Cleveland Regional Medical Center — and Whitetail Land Development.

The 600-acre project, which will be owned by the developer, will include new medical office buildings, a hospital and a multiuse senior and assisted living facility.

Whitetail Land Development has committed to giving 15 of the 600 acres to the medical center as a gift.

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