Part II: Steps to Save Money & Improve Care with Hospital Construction
Here is Part II of a two-part series on seven steps to approach a hospital expansion or renovation project to get the best value from construction with the best solutions for your facility, staff and patients. Part I lists the first three steps and was published to the HealthCare Construction + Operations News website on March 16.


PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — The behavioral health system partnered with insurance coverage can be difficult, so Provincetown Health System took action and created a program to help patients navigate the system.
SAN FRANCISCO — The Patient Tower at San Francisco’s Chinese Hospital in the Chinatown neighborhood, has completed a new building after being in the works for nearly 20 years.
DALLAS — The Parkland Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) is taking part in a new quality-improvement project called ICU Liberation, in hopes of improving the effects that intensive-care patients face after being released from the hospital.
TROY, Mich. — The Detroit Medical Center’s Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Troy opened its doors on Feb. 1.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — With the initial planning having started in the winter of 2012 and a target completion date set for late 2016, Craig Hospital’s $90 million expansion and renovation is nearing its conclusion.
A hospital expansion or renovation needs to address the practical problems of delivering care, so your strategy should be to identify and achieve those sometimes elusive and often oddly competing objectives. Your focus is on the final building as a solution to the functional problems, concentrating primarily on purchase value and construction schedule.
NEW YORK — Hospitals in New York’s North Country will receive $54.8 million in grant awards, split amongst 13 projects, to improve and transform health care in the area.
WHITE OAK, Md.
BATON ROUGE, La. — Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital in Baton Rouge broke ground on a new facility on Feb. 18. The state-of-the-art hospital will provide, high-quality medical care for the children within a network of pediatric health care excellence in Louisiana.