Lincoln, IL — Site work is beginning for Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital and ground will be broken for the $50 million building next Tuesday. A ceremony will be at noon at the location of the replacement building on Business I-55, south of Woodlawn Avenue, adjacent to the Logan County Fairground.Contractors began building a temporary road to the site last week, said Marty Ahrends, the hospital’s executive director of community development. “Next week is when the serious site work begins — weather permitting,” Ahrends said Tuesday. “We’ve been told that we’ll start seeing steel and concrete in August.”
Author: Chris Schmidt
Elgin, IL – Sherman Hospital was awarded a $400,000 grant from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation for its geothermal lake project at the new Sherman Hospital campus. The Foundation supports projects to improve energy efficiency and develop renewable energy resources throughout Illinois. Overall, the foundation has awarded over $6 million in grants to advance the use of geothermal in Illinois. The Sherman Hospital grant is the foundation’s largest individual award to support a geothermal system. Sherman was notified of the grant in 2006, and has received portions of the funding throughout the construction process. The grant will off-set a…
The curtain between two hospital beds does not stop noise from the television set, offer privacy during sensitive conversations with doctors or stop germs from spreading. Yet in most of America’s aging hospitals it is the only thing that separates strangers thrust together as roommates simply because both are ill. But in many new hospitals and pavilions, these semiprivate rooms have vanished. Single-patient rooms are now viewed as an important element of high-quality healthcare. The benefits of the single room emerged through evidence-based hospital design, a new field that guides health care construction. More than 1,500 studies have examined ways…
As part of a joint venture team known as BARA, Balfour Beatty Construction was selected to manage construction of the Parkland Replacement Hospital for the Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas, Texas. The 1.9 million-square-foot facility will replace the existing 55-year old hospital, and, when complete, will be the largest hospital building in Dallas. The $1.2 billion program will include a new, 862-bed Acute Care hospital, separate clinic building, office building, parking structures, and other support facilities. Two architectural firms, HDR Architecture, based in Omaha, Nebraska, and Corgan Associates of Dallas will design the project, which will be built…
Chicago — May 19 — Practice Greenhealth, the nation’s only membership association devoted to environmentally responsible healthcare, has announced its 2009 Environmental Excellence Award winners. These competitive awards are given to institutions within the healthcare sector for outstanding programs to reduce the facility’s environmental footprint.
Dayton, Ohio, — On Saturday, May 2, Miami Valley Hospital unveiled its new $19 million Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Created with baby and family comfort and staff convenience in mind, the new 51,000 square-foot Level III NICU embraces a unique layout concept that places it at the forefront of innovative hospital design in the Dayton region. The new NICU, which is located on two floors of the Berry Women’s Health Pavilion, is more than double the size of its predecessor. The unit fosters family-centered care through its 60 private rooms. “Many of our babies remain in the NICU for…
Construction on a $42 million, 130,000-square-foot hospital in Rice Lake will begin May 27 with a groundbreaking. Lakeview Medical Center and city officials reached an agreement last week regarding payments to the city in lieu of taxes, the last major hurdle for the project. Lisa Laatsch of Lakeview Medical Center’s community relations department said construction on the two-story building would create 106 jobs and would be ready to open in November or December of 2010.
Hammond, LA — April 8 — North Oaks Health System officials, and Livingston Parish dignitaries and leaders gathered this morning for a groundbreaking ceremony for the North Oaks-Livingston Parish Medical Complex. The 2-story, 47,000-square-foot outpatient medical complex has been designed by Gasaway-Gasaway-Bankston Architects and will be constructed by M.D. Descant Inc. The facility, which represents a total investment of $32 million, will be located on 30 acres of land on the south side of the I-12 Colyell/Satsuma interchange and will take approximately 18 months to construct. Scheduled for completion in the fall 2010, the outpatient complex will offer a wide…
Philanthropist’s Gift Leaves ‘Remarkable Legacy’ Sioux Falls, SD – April 8 – Sanford Health today announced South Dakota philanthropist Denny Sanford fulfilled his commitment to the organization by completing his $400 million pledge. As part of the largest philanthropic gift to a hospital or health system in the nation’s history, Denny Sanford agreed to make donation installments of $50 million over an eight year period, totaling $400 million. Sanford Health received the first $50 million in February 2007. Mr. Sanford has accelerated his donations over the past two years, and Sanford Health received the final installment on April 3, 2009;…
