by HCD Guest Author | Sep 21, 2017 | News
Kadean Construction (St. Louis) has completed three ambulatory surgical centers (ASC) in Kansas and Wisconsin, and is starting construction on two more centers in Michigan and Indiana. The five centers are being built for SurgCenter Development (Towson, Md.), a...
by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 21, 2017 | Trends
Panos Lampsas, MBA, regional program manager, Sutter Health (San Francisco) WHO HE IS: Lampsas has worked in the construction industry for 30 years, starting as an assistant project manager on federal projects while going to school to earn a bachelor’s degree in...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 20, 2017 | News
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital has completed a $10.8 million renovation project. The new Whitaker Clinic houses primary care, dermatology, podiatry, rheumatology clinics, lab, and imaging. The facility, designed by Gresham, Smith and Partners,...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 20, 2017 | News
Inova Loudoun Hospital recently broke ground on the next phase of its $300 million master plan expansion at the hospital’s main campus in Leesburg, Va. The seven-story, 366,000-square-foot patient tower will offer private rooms, which will feature patient-centered...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 19, 2017 | Projects
RWJ Barnabas Health had a puzzle to solve when expanding its Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, N.J. First, the project team, including architect Francis Cauffman (New York), general contractor Torcon (Red Bank, N.J.), and developer Rendina Healthcare Real...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 19, 2017 | Trends
It’s not unusual for healthcare design professionals to talk in metrics—cost per square foot, steps saved, HCAHPS scores—but James Ferris, an electrical engineer and healthcare operations manager at TLC Engineering for Architecture (Orlando, Fla.), takes a personal...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 19, 2017 | Projects
Several years ago, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) noticed an increasing number of patients seeking medical treatment who also had behavioral health conditions, such as children exhibiting suicidal or other self-harm tendencies or who fall on the autism...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 18, 2017 | News
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), SRG Partnership, and the construction joint venture team of McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. and Andersen Construction (McCarthy/Andersen), celebrated the signing of the last the steel beam for the construction of the new OHSU...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 18, 2017 | News
Kate Allen has been named co-director of BSA LifeStructures’ engineering team. In that role, she partners with fellow co-director, Brian Hoagland. Allen joined BSA LifeStructures in June as engineering principal-in-charge for the Denver office. Previously, she...
by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 18, 2017 | Trends
The stories behind how and why individuals ended up pursuing careers in healthcare design vary greatly. Some are drawn to the field and others stumble into it, but all have a personal story to share and a deeply meaningful reason for staying put. There’s a universal...
