One of the largest corporate donations in North Texas and largest gift in Baylor’s history benefits the Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer CenterDALLAS, Texas — Sept. 24 — Today the Baylor Health Care System Foundation announced gifts exceeding $20 million for what will be North Texas’ largest outpatient cancer center and first dedicated hospital focusing on cancer patients. This donation is made possible through the generosity of the men and women of Sammons Enterprises, Inc. and the estate of founder Charles A. Sammons, who quietly provided significant philanthropic support to Baylor University Medical Center for more than 50 years. These…
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New board members also namedCHICAGO, Ill — The American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) of the American Hospital Association (AHA) has announced that George A. (Skip) Smith, CHFM, SASHE, Director, Facility Management with Catholic Health Initiatives in Hilliard, Ohio was elected the 2010 President-Elect. The President-Elect will serve in this position during 2010 and assume the presidency in 2011. The ASHE Board of Directors has the responsibility to determine its mission, goals and objectives and to develop the strategic and financial plans to achieve them.
MECHANICSBURG, Pa., Sept. 21 — Vibra Healthcare LLC announced today that it has entered into a joint venture with Summa Health System of Akron, OH to build and operate a freestanding acute medical rehabilitation hospital on the campus of Summa Akron City Hospital.Development of the $20 million project is already underway with the new, 60-bed hospital scheduled to open in 2011. The new hospital is expected to employ about 130 medical professionals and staff and feature, among other amenities, private patient rooms, spacious rehabilitation therapy area and easy access to patient and visitor parking. Construction is expected to begin later…
Overall rebound expected in 2011 and 2012 LEXINGTON, Mass. – Because of a collapse in nonresidential construction and despite an expected recovery of residential building in the second half of 2009, total construction spending on an annual basis is expected to fall 12% this year and 4% in 2010, according to the Third Quarter U.S. Construction Briefing by IHS Global Insight’s Construction Service. Real total construction spending is expected to rebound with double-digit growth on an annual basis in 2011 and 2012, according to the IHS Global Insight forecast.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Architecture and construction plans for ProjectONE, an expansion project for The Ohio State University that will significantly advance the Medical Center’s education and research programs and improve patient care, were approved today on September 18 by The Ohio State University Board of Trustees.This is one of the largest job-generating initiatives in Ohio’s history. It is projected to create as many as 10,000 new full-time jobs and more than 5,000 construction jobs. ProjectONE will provide the community with $1.7 billion in annual economic impact by 2015, which is in addition to the more than $4 billion in economic…
SEATTLE, Wash — Sept. 17– Northwest Hospital & Medical Center, a 281-bed full service acute care hospital, will expand its program agreement with UW Medicine to become an integral part of the UW Medicine health system. The University of Washington Board of Regents endorsed the expanded affiliation agreement at its Sept. 17 meeting. When the final documents are completed, Northwest Hospital will become the newest entity of UW Medicine, joining the current six entities that include Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington Medical Center, UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics, University of Washington Physicians, Airlift Northwest and the UW School of Medicine.…
352-Bed State-of-the-Art Facility Will Continue Tradition of Quality and Personal Care in Southeast Los Angeles CountyDOWNEY, Calif.– Sept. 15 — Kaiser Permanente has opened a new state-of-the-art 352-bed hospital in Downey, which will provide high-quality, personal, and affordable healthcare in Southeast Los Angeles County for many years into the future. The $390 million Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center is located near the northwest corner of the intersection of Imperial Highway and Bellflower Boulevard, situated close to Kaiser Permanente’s outpatient Garden and Orchard Medical Office Buildings.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Sept. 15 — North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue, UNC President Erskine Bowles, and other dignitaries welcomed a crowd of more than 500 today to the dedication of the $180 million, 315,000 square foot N.C. Cancer Hospital.More than triple the previous cancer clinic space, which was located in a 1950s-era building, the new hospital was funded by the state of North Carolina and designed with patients and families in mind. Completed ahead of schedule and under budget as an expansion of UNC Health Care’s Chapel Hill campus, the hospital boasts abundant natural light, easy navigation, public artworks…
Collaboration will enable patients to access, control health information from multiple sites of careBOSTON, Mass. — Sept. 14 — Children’s Hospital Boston and eClinicalWorks(R) today announced a collaboration that will enable patients who are seen at Children’s ambulatory programs and in primary care practices in the Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s (PPOC) to aggregate health data from both sites of care into a single personally controlled health record (PCHR). This will be the first instance in which two separate health care provider organizations will feed a single PCHR from their different electronic medical record (EMR) systems – giving patients a…
