Greater Environmental Awareness Drives More Rapid LED Adoption in Europe Compared to US, according to Millennium Research GroupWALTHAM, Mass. — Oct. 8 — According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, European uptake of light-emitting diode (LED) surgical lights will represent 100% of surgical light sales by 2014, as hospitals replace halogen lights with significantly longer lasting LED lights. MRG’s European Markets for Video and High-Tech Hardware Devices 2010 report finds that adoption will be accelerated in Europe, in part because European countries are more environmentally conscious than their US counterparts.
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FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., — Oct. 6 — Cogdell Spencer ERDMAN is pleased to announce that the Botsford Hospital Cancer Center has been certified at the LEED Silver level by the U.S. Green Building Council. This is the first USGBC LEED Silver Certified health care facility in southeastern Michigan.Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is an internationally recognized green building certification system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, providing third-party verification that a building was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all metrics that matter most: sustainable site solutions, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere optimization,…
PASADENA, Calif. — Oct. 6 — Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC) announced today that it received a contract from the Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif., to continue providing program and construction management services for the New Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Expansion Projects.Officials did not disclose the contract value.In making the announcement, Jacobs Group Vice President Tom McDuffie stated, “We are excited that Stanford University Medical Center has involved us in this critical healthcare program, and committed to providing the resources necessary for its successful completion.”
Chicago, Ill — The American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) of the American Hospital Association (AHA) announced the launch of the Excellence in Facilities Management Award on October 1. This award, sponsored by Trane, honors an individual or team that demonstrates outstanding innovation and creativity to improve the health care physical environment. The award will highlight best-practices in order to educate and inspire other facility management professionals, as well as recognize innovative efforts that develop and promote a health care systems-wide approach. Additionally, the Excellence in Facilities Management Award will spotlight the importance of the Facility Manager’s contribution to improving…
Country Faces Challenges in Hospital Care, Vaccinations, Antivirals, and At-Risk Community PreparednessWASHINGTON — Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) released a new report on October 1 that finds 15 states could run out of available hospital beds during the peak of the outbreak, if 35 percent of Americans were to get sick from the H1N1 flu virus. Twelve additional states could reach or exceed 75 percent of their hospital bed capacity, based on estimates from the FluSurge model developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).According to the new report, H1N1 Challenges Ahead, the number of people hospitalized…
Design work to begin this month and facility to be finished by 2013, Corps of Engineers says(Ledger-Enquirer) The replacement of Martin Army Community Hospital at Fort Benning has taken a major step forward with the awarding of a contract to design and build the state-of-the-art facility.Turner Construction Co. of Huntsville, Ala., made the $333 million bid to construct the 745,000-square-foot facility, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed Wednesday.
A new U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) report, Report of the Task Group for Innovative 21st Century Building Environments for VA Healthcare Delivery, prepared by the National Institute of Building Sciences could help the federal agency move its healthcare facilities into the 21st century.The task group concludes, “VA is in a position to transform and lead healthcare delivery into a completely new and revolutionary force within our society.”In 2008, VA asked the National Institute of Building Sciences to coordinate its exploration for a new paradigm to provide a new generation of high-performance, sustainable healthcare environments for the changing population…
DETROIT, Mich. — Sept. 29 — Henry Ford Health System and Wayne State University have entered into discussions aimed at creating a partnership in education, research and clinical services.Henry Ford and Wayne State have signed a letter of intent to conduct extensive and formal discussions that would bring Wayne State’s School of Medicine into a closer, more comprehensive relationship than currently exists with Henry Ford.
With national focus on health reform, NY hospital system looks to improve quality and efficiency by subsidizing docs to enroll in NY area’s largest automated medical record systemGREAT NECK, N.Y. — Sept. 28 — The North Shore-LIJ Health System announced today it is subsidizing up to 85 percent of the cost of implementing and operating an Electronic Health Records (EHR) system in the offices of its more than 7,000 affiliated physicians in New York City and Long Island — part of a $400 million investment to strengthen the quality of care throughout the region by automating inpatient and outpatient records…
