ATLANTA — University Health System (UHS) joined MedAssets to access total cost management and proprietary technology tools for construction projects. UHS is the third-largest public health system in Texas and is now one of about 45 fellow health care organizations across the United States to link with MedAssets.
MOULTRIE, Ga. — Colquitt Regional Medical Center started construction on a new rehabilitation center this week, with the project cost targeted at $3 million.
The new on-campus facility will house the hospital’s occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, physical therapy programs and registration. These services are currently located separately.
NEW YORK — The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), along with the New York State Department of Health, announced that three Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) and three health information exchange (HIE) vendors will participate in the Statewide Health Information Network of New York, (SHIN-NY) which will function similarly to a public utility.
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Mobotix Corp., a provider of high-resolution, network-based security products, announced that National Lutheran Communities & Services (NLCS) has deployed 37 Mobotix cameras at the Village at Rockville in Maryland.
TORRANCE, Calif. –– Pediatric Burn Unit patients at Torrance Memorial Medical Center recently teamed with workers from McCarthy Building Companies Inc. to create mini renditions of the new hospital patient tower using Legos, and to mark the tower’s final concrete pour. The event took place in view of the project site where construction of the medical center’s 398,350-square-foot patient tower is underway.
WEST READING, Pa. — The Reading Hospital and Medical Center (TRHMC) of West Reading, Pa., and the Surgical Institute of Reading (SIR) jointly announced that TRHMC will acquire SIR, which will become a division of TRHMC. The transaction is expected to be completed this summer following review by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General.
SLIDELL, La. — Ground has been broken for the emergency department and cardiology expansion project at Slidell Memorial Hospital, a 182-bed acute care facility.
The architect is Sizeler Thompson Brown Architects. KLMK Group Inc. is providing program management services.
All phases of the $25 million project are scheduled to be completed in 2013.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — In a study that is the first of its kind, a team of researchers is studying ways to make childbirth procedures more sustainable by examining the environmental impacts of childbirth.
With funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh have teamed up to improve sustainable childbirth procedures through vaginal delivery and birth by cesarean section.
CLEVELAND, Texas — Fees for medical services at Cleveland Regional Medical Center were recently lowered by 15 percent in an effort to save millions of dollars.
New Directions Health Systems LLC, the Louisville, Ky.-based company that owns and operates the facility, lowered the costs of all services in the following medical divisions: cardiopulmonary, labor and delivery, dietary, obstetrical, emergency and trauma, operating room and post anesthesia, intensive care, respiratory and medical and surgical.
HOUSTON, Texas — Hoar Construction recently became the first construction company to be endorsed by the Texas Hospital Association (THA).
The association was formed to help hospitals across Texas provide safe, quality and affordable health care through its HealthSHARE program, which extensively screens and endorses companies serving Texas hospitals.
