Building materials that better retain heat in the winter, and reflect it in the summer; plumbing fixtures that save water; and facilities that encourage employees to bicycle to work. Environmentally-friendly features like these enable the new research building at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to be certified as a green structure.
Author: Chris Schmidt
Regents will be asked to approve naming the women’s hospital — located within the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Women’s Hospital complex — after Ted and Jane Von VoigtlanderANN ARBOR, Mich. — Dec. 14 — The University of Michigan Health System has received a $15 million gift from the Ted and Jane Von Voigtlander Foundation, the largest gift ever made to the Health System for women’s health. It will support the construction of a new women’s hospital.
The timetable is now set for the construction of the new 237-milllion dollar Good Samaritan Hospital and adjoining Surgery Center in Mt. Vernon. The President of Good Samaritan Regional Health Center Mike Warren says bids will go out in January, with groundbreaking on the 30 month project expected to follow in April. “The hospital will have 134 beds and consist of a garden level, five floors and numerous patient entrances surrounded by convenient parking,” he says. “A medical office building will be connected to the hospital will include many out-patient diagnostic services and also a surgery center.”
Grant helps fund the construction and operation of the new Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding hospitalATLANTA, GA — Dec. 11 — Kaiser Permanente of Georgia today announced a $5 million multi-year gift to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta with the goal of improving access to care for low-income children.The gift helps fund the construction and operation of a new, state-of-the-art hospital that replaces the existing Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding facility in downtown Atlanta. In addition, half of the donation will help fund healthcare at the facility for Metro Atlanta children who are uninsured or underinsured.
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — On December 8, Martin Memorial received a final order from the state to build an 80-bed hospital in the Tradition development of west Port St. Lucie.The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration accepted an administrative law judge’s recommendation to approve the project and issued a final order denying exceptions by Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and St. Lucie Medical Center, the two HCA, Inc.-owned hospitals in St. Lucie County.
Rafael Vinoly-designed building creates capacity for 550 new jobs and expanded cancer and neurodegenerative disease research, features the latest in intelligent building design, and adds to West Michigan’s burgeoning life sciences sectorGRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 8 — Today, Van Andel Institute (VAI) cuts the ribbon on its eight-story, $178 million, 240,000 square foot Phase II expansion. The expanded facility creates economic and scientific opportunity both for VAI and West Michigan’s burgeoning life sciences sector and adds to the more than $1 billion investment in infrastructure already in place along Grand Rapids’ Medical Mile. When operating at capacity, the expansion will…
DALLAS, Texas — Dec. 8 — For the fourteenth consecutive year Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas (Baylor Dallas) has earned the Consumer Choice Award by the National Research Corporation (NRC) for the Dallas region. The Consumer Choice Award is given to the hospitals that consumers have chosen as having the highest quality and image in 250 markets throughout the U.S. This is the fourteenth year NRC has recognized and honored Consumer Choice Award winners and the thirteenth occasion that consumers have chosen Baylor Dallas for these awards.
Major Energy-Efficiency Grant Also AnnouncedPLAINSBORO, N.J., — The development of University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro (UMCPP) reached a milestone on December 3rd with a “topping out” ceremony, marking the completion of steel-frame construction at the new hospital that will replace University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP).
The Critical Care Building (CCB) at Geisinger Health System’s Wyoming Valley campus receives LEED Silver certification, highlighting the hospital’s commitment to green building and energy-efficient operations.Wilkes-Barre, PA, December 06, 2009 — The Critical Care Building (CCB) at Geisinger Health System’s Wyoming Valley campus has received a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver certification, highlighting the hospital’s commitment to green building and energy-efficient operations. Just three percent of current LEED-certified projects are healthcare-related, and most of these are not as energy-intensive as acute care buildings, which operate on a 24/7 basis.
