by Tracey Walker | Feb 25, 2021 | News
Oklahoma Children’s Hospital (Oklahoma City) celebrated the grand opening of a new amenity space for children and families at the hospital, according to an article in KFOR. The Presti Clubhouse and Play Area includes an expanded east lobby with family-friendly seating...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 25, 2021 | News
Hospital group Exceptional Healthcare (Dallas) is planning a new community hospital in Yuma, Ariz., according to an article in AZ Business Magazine. The facility will include a 24-hour emergency department (ED); digital imaging suite with CT scan, X-ray, mobile MRI,...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 24, 2021 | News
Integrated design firm SmithGroup (Boston) has promoted Andrew Brumbach to lead the healthcare studio in its Boston office. Brumbach will guide planning and design projects for health systems throughout the Northeast. Brumbach began his architecture career at...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 24, 2021 | News
Employee-owned architectural, interior design and design strategy firm Taylor Design (Irvine, Calif.) has hired Michael Levendusky as design director in the firm’s Irvine office. Levendusky will focus on project work in the healthcare and science/technology sectors....
by Tracey Walker | Feb 23, 2021 | News
The American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE; Chicago) and the Naval Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMR&TC; Bethesda, Md.) have created a new document that reviews current literature of recommended practices on HVAC controls for healthcare...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 23, 2021 | News
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus, Ohio) is planning a new hospital inpatient tower to provide critical care, transplant, neurosciences, surgery, and women and infants care services. The 1.9 million-square-foot, 26-story inpatient tower will be...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 22, 2021 | Projects
Vassar Brothers Medical Center Inpatient Pavilion Opening in January 2021, the 752,000-square-foot, eight-story Vassar Brothers Medical Center Inpatient Pavilion (VBMC; Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) adds 264 med/surg beds and 30 critical care beds to the hospital. CallisonRTKL...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 22, 2021 | Trends
In 2008, an exuberant crowd gathered on every level of the multistory lobby to dedicate the new 181,000-square-foot DePaul Patient Tower addition to HealthEast St. Joseph’s Hospital in downtown St. Paul, Minn. As leader of the HOK design team for the project, I was...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 22, 2021 | News
Elks Children’s Eye Clinic at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU; Portland, Ore.) has completed construction in Portland. The $50-million, five-story facility connects to the existing Casey Eye Institute via a sky-bridge. It serves children and adults and...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 22, 2021 | News
Baptist Health South Florida (Miami, Fla.) has opened a new multidisciplinary medical complex in Plantation, Fla. The 112,000-square-foot wellness and medical complex features services from the health system’s four centers of excellence providing cancer, orthopedic,...
