MARION, Maine — South Coast Improvement Co. (SCI) officially launched its Healthcare & Senior Living Retrofit Division in February, a move that allows the company to strategically market its services to a broader range of clients.
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.
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.
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.
MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. — Ryan Companies US Inc. (Ryan) is nearing completion on the new Froedtert Health Medical Group-Menomonee Falls Clinic in Menonomee Falls, Wis. — a project that has been in the works for quite some time. Construction of the core and shell will wrap up soon and occupancy is expected in November.
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CHICAGO — A competitive, lump-sum bid approach to delivery resulted in substantial savings for Central DuPage Hospital’s complex construction project.
A new 202-bed patient tower at the Winfield, Ill. hospital opened last summer to replace general medical service beds in CDH’s original facility, built in the 1970s.
CLARK, N.J. — SurroundHealth was named one of the top three sites of 2011 in the Social Media and Community Site category by Kentico, a Nashua, N.H.-based content management system provider, out of 193 other websites built using the Kentico platform.
SurroundHealth, an online community of health educators and healthcare professionals, was developed by HealthEd Academy, a Clark, N.J.-based division of HealthEd dedicated to fostering research and development in health education that targets health professionals in the trenches of patient education and health education.
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Griffin-American Health Care REIT II, formerly known as Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT II, acquired 10 skilled nursing facilities and one medical office building for approximately $174.3 million in January.
OAK BROOK, Ill. — The Federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced $218 million in awards to 26 state, regional, national or hospital organizations as part of a public-private collaboration to reduce the millions of preventable injuries and complications from healthcare-acquired conditions.
