Facing overburdened capacity at many of the nation’s healthcare facilities is not a new experience, healthcare leaders are driven to expand facilities to accommodate population increases—while lacking the funds to do so even before COVID-19 existed.
A year after merging operations, CityMD of New York and Summit Medical Group (SMG) of Berkeley Heights, N.J., are marking the anniversary by touting their joint efforts at working to alleviate overrun healthcare facilities in the New York Metro Area, which suffered greatly during the spring spike in cases of the coronavirus.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, occupied hospital renovations were already a complicated task.
With an industry shift toward measuring and rewarding better patient outcomes, we have been seeing a renewed focus on the point of care experience.
In an effort to increase treatment capacity amid the ongoing pandemic posed by the coronavirus, Phoebe Putney Memorial North hospital is adding a 24-unit modular unit specifically for patients afflicted with COVID-19.
According to the government policy watchdog website, TheHill.com, more and more governors across the United States are instructing state health officials to increase bed capacity to meet the expected surge in COVID-19 patients.
Design-build firm Stantec has been tapped by Alberta Health Services (AHS) and the Government of Alberta to design the first temporary treatment center for COVID-19 within the Canadian province.
With the coronavirus pandemic having shut down much of the U.S. economy the past few months, and new cases of COVID-19 continuing to be reported, one healthcare construction project in the City of Brotherly Love has been ramped up to be able to treat patients as quickly as possible.
Like all other economic sectors, the construction industry is feeling the pinch as the ongoing covid-19 pandemic forces businesses to close and the economy experiences a major downtown.
Temporary wall manufacturer STARC Systems has announced that it is redirecting the entirety of its operations into the construction of critical care isolation rooms for the nation’s healthcare facilities at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has seen hospitals struggling to provide adequate patient care.
