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.
NEW YORK — Manhattan-based Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center commissioned Seesmart Technologies Inc. to retrofit nearly 700 fixtures with LED tube lights, resulting in significant cost and energy savings, according to officials from the company.
Seesmart’s retrofit replaced nearly 700 fixtures at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. By switching from fluorescent T8s and T12s to Seesmart T8s in the facility’s parking garage, the hospital’s energy cost was reduced by almost 57 percent.
CORNING, N.Y. — The groundbreaking was held April 18 for the new $146 million Guthrie Corning Hospital, with construction on the 232,000-square-foot facility scheduled to begin in late June.
The hospital features 65 private rooms and is designed to be energy efficient and promote green operations. The new hospital will replace the outdated Denison Parkway facility, built in the early 1900s.
“This project truly represents a new era in patient care for the residents of the region,” said Shirley Magana, president of the Hospital.
SALT LAKE CITY— A new 7,000-square-foot disaster preparedness center in Salt Lake City, Utah, is now officially open, offering certain medical personnel disaster response training. The new Intermountain Center for Disaster Preparedness will be located inside the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City.
BALTIMORE — The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore recently unveiled its new emergency departments for both adult and pediatric care on April 29. The new facilities replace the previous outdated pediatric and adult emergency centers and open their doors to what officials call modern and updated emergency departments.
On March 28, 2012, the Department of Justice filed a settlement under the Americans with Disabilities Act with Trinity Health Systems to ensure that the Trinity Regional Medical Center provides effective communication to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing — including a settlement of $198,000 to the aggrieved individuals and a $20,000 civil penalty.
The complaint, filed in 2009, alleged that alleging that the Medical Center had inadequate mechanisms in place to ensure good communication between hospital personnel and deaf patients.
CHICAGO, Ill. — Results of a new study evaluating noise reduction measures in hospitals across the U.S. point to ways to improve patient satisfaction and care.
The study, released in late April, examined how hospitals are structuring their efforts, where in facilities administrators were focusing attention and what kind of success they were seeing.
