by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 28, 2017 | News
Mortenson recently announced the design and location for its first building in the Destination Medical Center (DMC) Discovery Square development in Rochester, Minn. DMC is a public-private economic initiative with a 20-year plan to turn Rochester, Minn., into a...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 28, 2017 | Trends
The Joint Commission announced an added emphasis will be placed on the assessment of ligature attachment, suicide, and self-harm observations in psychiatric hospitals and inpatient psychiatric patient areas in general hospitals. The article goes on to detail the...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 28, 2017 | Projects
Opened in November 2016, the Edson Healthcare Centre in Edson‚ Alberta, Canada, is a full-service rural healthcare facility located in the Canadian Rockies foothills. Operated by Alberta Health Services and designed by Dialog (Calgary, Alberta, Canada), the center...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 27, 2017 | News
According to “Baltimore Business Journal,” construction of a new Ronald McDonald House in Jonestown, Md., is slated to begin next week. The $30 million, 60,000-square-foot project is expected to house 2,200 families each year. You can read the full article...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 26, 2017 | News
Duke Realty, an Indianapolis-based commercial real estate developer, announced that it will break ground early this summer on a two-story, 37,000-square-foot, off-campus medical office building on 3.85 acres in Santa Clarita, Calif. The medical office building will be...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 26, 2017 | News
Humber River Hospital, located in Toronto, Ontario, and its project partners announced the facility’s achievement of LEED Gold certification through the Canada Green Building Council. The acute care hospital achieved a design energy use intensity (EUI) of 348 ekWh/m2...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 26, 2017 | News
KAI Design & Build, along with joint venture partner Paric Corp., announced the completion of a 1,200-foot-long, elevated pedestrian skywalk project connecting more than 6,000 parking spaces to the main hospital complex on the BJC HealthCare/Washington University...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 25, 2017 | News
Signs inside and outside Plaza Medical Center of Fort Worth are transitioning to the new name of Medical City Fort Worth. The renaming is part of a unifying name change for Medical City Healthcare’s 13 North Texas hospitals and seven off-campus hospital. In addition,...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 25, 2017 | News
International design, architecture and planning firm Perkins Eastman recently joined Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, dignitaries from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India,...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 25, 2017 | News
The $40 million upgrade of St John of God Bendigo Hospital (SJGBH), located in Bendigo, Australia, is now complete, resulting in a three-story extension to the hospital. This includes 52 new inpatient beds plus capacity for future expansion, a rehabilitation unit, two...
