NEW YORK, NY — Aug. 12 — Turner Construction Company, the nation’s largest builder of healthcare facilities, reported that the use of an innovative combination of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Lean construction practices on the 555,000 sq. ft. Middle Tennessee Medical Center (MTMC) in Murfreesboro, Tenn. resulted in the delivery of $3 million in budgeted costs savings below the Owner’s initial target at the beginning of the project and an additional projection of nearly $1 million in savings from BIM-enabled prefabrication alone by the end of the project.
Author: Chris Schmidt
COLUMBIA, MO — Picnic tables and a small basketball court sit empty at Pershing Park, and the grassy area is now populated not with patients and doctors, but with bulldozers and construction equipment as Truman Veterans Hospital prepares to erect its newest addition. The project of a World War I veteran who became a hospital volunteer, the patch of green space behind the veterans hospital has been used by patients and doctors as recreation space since the hospital opened in 1972.
CHICAGO, IL – The American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) of the American Hospitals Association (AHA) honored members during the opening session of its 46th Annual ASHE Conference and Technical Exhibition on August 3rd.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA –August 6 –Tri-Isthmus Group, Inc. (TIGroup) (OTCBB:TISG) a provider of financial solutions to the healthcare services industry, announced today that the company has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to jointly acquire the fixed assets of the Liberty-Dayton Community Hospital in Southeastern Texas and to develop a new medical facility to serve the region. In a separate and related transaction, TIGroup has signed an LOI with the current owner of the hospital operations to take a majority controlling ownership position.
Riverside Medical Center Breaks Ground on Largest Addition in Hospital’s HistoryKankakee, IL — On Tuesday, July 28, 2009, Riverside Medical Center broke ground on the largest addition since opening in 1964. A Dixieland band filled the morning air with visions of the past as a portrait of Riverside’s original 1962 groundbreaking unfolded before everyone’s eyes.
Thanks to a generous donation by the FedEx Corporation, Le Bonheur Families will have family- and patient- centered house to stay.Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center today broke ground on FedExFamilyHouse, a state-of-the-art facility that will provide housing for families of patients receiving extended care at Le Bonheur.
The South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center Board authorized the sale of bonds to build a $23 million hospital north of town. They also approved a reliminary official statement on the sale Monday night. The action, which had been expected, is the first of three steps in getting the bonds sold.
The southern Wake town keeps trying to convince the state that it needs its own.The town of Holly Springs filed a petition Friday asking the state to add 42 new hospital beds in Wake County to its 2010 medical facilities plan.The petition is the southern Wake town’s latest attempt to convince state regulators that its fast-growing population needs its own health-care facility. Just six months ago, regulators denied Novant Health’s request to build a $100 million community hospital in Holly Springs that would have included 41 beds and four operating rooms.
Florham Park, NJ – Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR), and the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity™, introduces ASCO Power University to the power switching and control world. The ASCO Power Technologies educational and informational center provides news, technical information and insight on trends and issues.
