ICU Expansion at Children’s of Alabama Delivers 50 New Patient Rooms
The 12th-floor intensive care expansion at Children’s of Alabama’s Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children in downtown Birmingham was completed in March, delivering 50 new intensive care patient rooms and more than 49,000 square feet of critical support space.


KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The University of Kansas (KU) Hospital kicked off construction of its new, 92-bed Cambridge North Patient Tower on March 9. The $280 million building is situated just northeast of the existing hospital buildings.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A headwall designed exclusively for the University of California-San Diego Jacobs Medical Center received first prize in the Industrial and Life Science Design category for the International Design Awards (IDA). Overland Park-based Shield Casework, the manufacturer of the headwall, made the announcement July 31.
CHICAGO — Last month, the 10-story 1.2 million-square-foot Center for Care and Discovery at the University of Chicago Medicine opened for patient use.
TUCSON, Ariz. — The University of Arizona Medical Center, South Campus in Tucson, Ariz., provides critical support and relief for local law enforcement agencies while also providing a safe place for patient healing. The Los Angles office of Cannon Design worked on the $37.4 million project and focused on creating a normalized healing environment that would serve multiple facets of behavioral medicine.