by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 12, 2017 | News
SwedishAmerican, a division of UW Health, is investing $130 million to construct a new women’s and children’s tower while making additional renovations on its main hospital campus in downtown Rockford, Ill. The new four-story structure is expected to be open in 2020,...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 12, 2017 | News
KAI Design & Build has hired five new employees to its Engineering Department. Jeffrey Kidwell as senior plumbing designer. Kidwell, who brings 35 years of industry experience to KAI Design & Build, specializes in private sector and government/military...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 11, 2017 | News
S/L/A/M Construction Services (SLAM CS) recently announced its recent hire of Rod Neff, CHFM and Chris Dittrich, CDT. Neff and Dittrich will join the SLAM CS team as senior project managers. Neff, a Certified Healthcare Facility Manager (CHFM), brings more than 30...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 11, 2017 | News
Mortenson Construction is launching a major renovation and expansion of Harper College’s sports and wellness center to create a state-of-the-art health and recreation center for the Palatine, Ill., community college and Chicago’s northwest suburbs. The $38 million...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 11, 2017 | News
Healthcare Design will honor three winners in its 2017 Product Innovation Awards. This annual program recognizes product manufacturers offering the most innovative and unique products serving the healthcare design industry. A panel of 16 jurors, including architects,...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 10, 2017 | News
Construction of a new ambulance bay and expanded emergency department at the Wainwright Health Centre in Alberta, Canada, will begin this week and is expected to be complete in late 2018. Design work for the $3.65 million project was completed earlier this year. The...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 10, 2017 | News
According to “Memphis Business Journal,” Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. is investing more than $300 million in North Mississippi. Baptist Memorial Hospital–DeSoto recently broke ground on a $19 million emergency department expansion project that will...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 10, 2017 | News
The Health Care Institute is expanding its local influence with the launch of HCI North Texas. The new Texas component joins HCI Chicago and HCI Midwest as a local representative of HCI activities, in support of the national organization’s mission to enhance the...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 10, 2017 | Projects
Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Monmouth is a renovated, 120,000-square-foot facility in Middletown, N.J., designed by Perkins+Will and completed in November 2016. It’s MSK’s second freestanding outpatient treatment site in the Garden State, offering central and...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 10, 2017 | Trends
Beginning in my final year of college, I worked at an inpatient behavioral health clinic where kids who were diagnosed with mental illness, ranging from schizophrenia to bipolar disorder, lived. My job was to hang out with the kids, serve them meals, and keep them...
