by Tracey Walker | Mar 11, 2024 | News
East Alabama Health (Opelika, Ala.) is planning a $32.5 million expansion at its East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika. A three-story, 67,400-square-foot addition will be constructed atop a two-story portion of the hospital’s West Pavilion. The project will add a...
by Tracey Walker | Mar 8, 2024 | News
My Community Health Center (MCHC; Canton, Ohio), a nonprofit primary care health center that serves patients regardless of their ability to pay, opened a third location in southeast Canton. Currently, MCHC has two clinics located in Canton and Magnolia, Ohio. The...
by Tracey Walker | Mar 8, 2024 | News
Four hospitals within Hackensack Meridian Health’s integrated health network (Edison, N.J.) achieved The Joint Commission’s (Washington, D.C.) Sustainable Healthcare Certification (SHC), which provides a framework to support healthcare organizations’ decarbonization...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 8, 2024 | Trends
Today, U.S. hospitals are at the pivotal intersection between healthcare and environmental responsibility, actively engaging in efforts to decarbonize facilities through innovative designs such as modular solar panels that generate clean energy instead of relying on...
by Anne DiNardo | Mar 7, 2024 | Trends
Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of University of Michigan, will welcome the new $920 million D. Dan and Betty Kahn Health Care Pavilion to its main medical campus in Ann Arbor, Mich., in fall 2025. The 12-story building will include 264 beds, a...
by Tracey Walker | Mar 7, 2024 | News
Behavioral health care provider Coleman Health Services (Lima, Ohio) broke ground on an expansion project at its Portage Crisis Center, in Ravenna, Ohio, according to the website weeklyvillager.com. Eight new beds will be added to the center’s 11-bed crisis and...
by Tracey Walker | Mar 7, 2024 | News
Plunkett Raysich Architects LLP (PRA; Milwaukee) acquired firm Practice Design Group (PDG; Buda, Texas) into its healthcare design studio. The deal allows PRA’s healthcare planning and design studio to expand its dental design specialty services across the U.S.,...
by Tracey Walker | Mar 6, 2024 | News
Independent, nonprofit Silver Cross Hospital (New Lenox, Ill.) and Premier Suburban Medical Group (Orland Park, Ill.) completed the Silver Cross Orland Park Medical Pavilion in Orland Park. The 41,000-square-foot, two-story facility comprises a 21-infusion-bay cancer...
by Tracey Walker | Mar 6, 2024 | News
Construction firm McGough (St. Paul, Minn.) has hired Steve Catts as vice president, national healthcare practice lead. Catts brings more than 40 years of experience in healthcare construction and real estate development at a national and international scale. His most...
by Anne DiNardo | Mar 6, 2024 | Trends
The opening of Essentia Health’s new 930,000-square-foot St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth, Minn., would add the tallest building in the city. With a directive from Essentia Health to ensure the new facility felt a part of the city and inviting to the community, the...
