From a capital markets standpoint, equity markets are in reasonably good shape, according to Frederick A. Hessler, managing director, Health Care Group, Citigroup (New York). The outlook for the not-for-profit healthcare sector is stable, per Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings—although there’s concern that future cost-cutting efforts are limited, and Moody’s rates the outlook as “negative.”
“They say everything’s bigger in Texas, and it’s true,” said Walter Jones, senior vice president of facilities for Parkland Hospital (Dallas) to the audience assembled at ASHE PDC. While the new Parkland didn’t start out as the largest healthcare construction project in the U.S., he said, “In true Texas fashion, it ended up that way.”
The Mario Lemieux Center for Blood Cancers is a 24,000-square-foot outpatient treatment facility located within the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center in Pittsburgh. Designed by Radelet McCarthy Polletta Architects and Interior Designers (Pittsburgh), the center was completed in December 2012 and began treating patients in January 2013.
Paul H. Keckley, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, offered the attendees assembled for ASHE PDC in San Francisco his perspective on where we’ve come from and where we’re going now that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a reality. His keynote speech, “Healthcare Reform: Implications and Challenges,” focused on supply (a.k.a. our industry) versus demand (patient needs/wants) in shaping the built environment.
The new Herman & Walter Samuelson Children's Hospital at Sinai, designed by Hord Coplan Macht, is a $29.5 million, 57,200-square-foot facility featuring 26 spacious private rooms and child-friendly design elements throughout.
We’ve been undergoing some changes at Healthcare Design over the past year, and our January/February issue really brings that point home in more ways than one. For starters, we’ve done some renovations on our print and digital product—the magazine features a new look, an update on the design that’s served it for the past 11 years (since its inception, in fact).
Developed to attract world-class scientists and support sensitive advanced diagnostics equipment, the three-story, 100,000-square-foot Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (Jupiter, Fla.) is one of very few LEED Gold-certified life sciences research facilities in the world. It’s the first non-European institute for the Max Planck Society, the 60-year-old global scientific research organization based in Munich, Germany.
Golden Valley Health Center (GVHC) is a nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Center system, serving the Central Valley of California. Through a network of sites, GVHC provides comprehensive primary medical and dental care to a diverse population, including migrant and seasonal farm workers, Southeast Asian refugees, and the homeless population of Modesto.
As we recently reported, the Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) has released a draft of a new standard on residential care facilities, which is open for public comment until March 20.
It’s a daunting prospect to sift through hundreds of submission proposals in search of the perfect program lineup for the Healthcare Design Conference.
With the way the population is aging, everyone who designs and builds healthcare spaces is involved in designing for the senior market. Facilities that specifically cater to the elderly will have to expand and grow; other facilities, from doctors’ offices to retail clinics to hospitals, have steadily been paying more attention to design elements that are elder-friendly.
The Kaleida Health Gates Vascular Institute/SUNY at Buffalo Clinical Translational Research Center was developed by the private Kaleida Health system and the public SUNY system and designed by Cannon Design. It’s a 10-story, 475,000-square-foot building using a condominium arrangement by which each entity funded its part of the building to meet its own financial structure.
