AECOM Earns Engineering Award for Baltimore Hospital
ARLINGTON, Va. — AECOM Technology Corp. earned national recognition for its design of the Mary Catherine Bunting Center at Mercy, a 700,000-square-foot replacement hospital in Baltimore, Md.
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St. Alexius Tech and Education Center Frees Up Clinic Space
BISMARCK, N.D. — With the goal of putting tomorrow’s environmental principles into practice today, a new Upper Midwest four-story facility to house St. Alexius Medical Center’s non-patient care departments helped free up space on the rest of campus for clinical service.
Boston Area Medical Centers Join Blue Cross Blue Shield AQC Plan
BOSTON — The Boston Medical Center and seven affiliated health centers will join Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), which aims to promote the quality of care over the number of services provided.
Blue Cross Blue Shield established the contracts in January 2009 as a result of concerns with the fee-for-service reimbursement model, which, according to the health care network, unintentionally rewards doctors and hospitals for the quantity and complexity of services provided rather than the quality and outcomes of care.
Shepley Bulfinch to Design Children’s Hospital of Buffalo
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Architecture firm Shepley Bulfinch of Boston was selected to design the physician-led plan for a new Children’s Hospital of Buffalo on its Niagara campus in Western New York.
Oriol Health Care Selects Team for Holden, Mass. Medical Office
BOSTON — Margulies Perruzzi Architects and Cutler Associates announced that the firms have been selected to design and construct a new medical office building in Holden, Mass. for Oriol Health Care.
Hospital Security Strategies
Fred Miehl is a Certified Protection Professional with the security systems design consulting firm of Aggleton and Associates, Inc. He is a member of ASIS, and a member of the IAHSS; he was a former board member of the International Association of Professional Security Consultants (IAPSC). Miehl has been planning and designing security systems for more than 30 years.
High-Tech Wayfinding Makes Statement at Kansas City Hospital
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A new wayfinding program at the recently renovated Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City is designed to push the envelope with state-of-the-art digital components.
Ground Broken on St. John’s Mercy Hospital Campus in Joplin
ST. LOUIS — McCarthy Building Co. broke ground on a new $335 million, 825,000-square-foot hospital in Joplin, Mo., to replace the former tornado-stricken facility.
Christus Santa Rosa to Open Freestanding ER Centers in San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Christus Santa Rosa Health System, a nonprofit, Catholic faith-based health system, plans to open freestanding emergency centers in New Braunfels and San Antonio in an attempt to provide better access to emergency services.
The San Antonio location will be an 11,000-square-foot, 10-bed facility. The New Braunfels facility, at 12,000 square feet, will also house 10 beds. Both are expected to open later this year.
Cancer Center Project Takes Collaborative Approach
BOSTON — Lawrence & Memorial Hospital’s Cancer Center in Waterford, Conn., is one of the first health care construction projects in the country to use an integrated project delivery (IPD) method to control costs and deliver a patient-friendly facility.