63,000-Square-Foot Critical-Access Facility Improves Functionality and Creates Operational EfficienciesNashville, TN – July 30 – Gresham, Smith and Partners, a leading national architecture, engineering, interior design and planning firm, announces the opening of Howard Memorial Hospital in Nashville, Arkansas for which the firm provided planning and design services. The 63,000-square-foot critical access facility contains 20 private patient rooms, two operating rooms, a minor procedure room and full-service emergency, imaging departments and a helipad. The facility replaces an existing hospital and is designed to improve functionality and create operational efficiencies.
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KLMK Group, LLC was recently awarded a contract with Memorial Hospital in York, Pennsylvania to provide Client Advisory Services for the first phase of their new hospital. Memorial Hospital has purchased land at the former 127-acre Hawk Lake Golf Club to build a new healthcare campus to meet the growing needs of patients in York and the surrounding communities. The new campus will include a full service acute care replacement facility. The property allows for future construction and expansion of additional outpatient and ancillary buildings.
Bay Pines, FL – The Bay Pines VA Medical Center broke ground July 21 on a project that will enhance care for area veterans. The VA Medical Center is constructing a new Radiation Therapy Center where veterans will be able to receive state-of-the-art cancer care. Currently, Bay Pines VA does not offer radiation therapy; veterans requiring this type of cancer treatment must travel to Tampa VA or a community provider. The addition of the Radiation Therapy Center allows for better continuity of care, where veterans will be able to receive most types of cancer treatment on the Bay Pines VA…
FORT BELVOIR, VA. — July 27 (Army News Service) — The patient-and family-focused design of a new community hospital at Fort Belvoir is taking physical shape after a year of construction.Under the Base Realignment and Closure Act of 2005, the new hospital will replace DeWitt Army Community Hospital and take over some of the services now offered at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The current Walter Reed facility is scheduled to close Sept. 15, 2011 as a new hospital expansion opens in Bethesda.
New York, N.Y. — Turner Construction Company, the nation’s largest builder of healthcare facilities, has been selected by The University of Kansas Hospital to manage construction of a $55 medical office building in Kansas City, Kan. The project will seek LEED Certification from the United States Green Building Council upon completion in 2011.The medical center will be located south of The University of Kansas Hospital and will house 18 clinical departments, including exam, clinic, diagnostic and treatment areas, which are currently scattered throughout the campus.
Partnership to Focus on Energy Conservation and Facility RetrofittingARLINGTON, VA. — Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) has entered into an agreement with the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), a project of the William J. Clinton Foundation, to develop programs to help hospitals and healthcare facilities reduce their environmental impact, particularly in the area of carbon reduction. HCWH will work with CCI to develop building energy efficiency retrofit projects and other carbon reduction strategies in healthcare facilities.
WILLITS, CA – A $350,000 grant for construction of a new Frank R. Howard Memorial Hospital building is working its way over Capitol Hill.Congressman Mike Thompson’s office announced Friday the House of Representatives passed the 2010 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (LHHSE) appropriations bill. The bill includes the grant, the latest installment in funding necessary to move the hospital.
Refreshed site features easier navigation and targeted content that supports new “All About Flooring, All About You” brandLawrence, MA — July 24, 2009 — nora systems, Inc., manufacturer of nora® rubber flooring, announces the launch of a new website – www.nora.com/us. Designed to support the “All About Flooring, All About You” brand introduced earlier this year, the refreshed site features hundreds of flooring application pages, enhanced navigation for a more intuitive user experience and expanded content that reaffirm the company’s commitment to the architects, designers, contractors and building owners who work with and use nora floor coverings.
Hospital administrators in Borger, TX plan to break ground on a 25-bed hospital on the west side of town this fall after finally securing money for construction.The new Golden Plains Community Hospital, estimated to cost $27 million, will be financed with loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a local bank.Earlier this decade, hospital officials were told the current Golden Plains hospital, an aging structure on McGee Street, was beyond repair and needed replacement.
