The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched a new initiative, Home as a Health Care Hub, to help reimagine the home environment as an integral part of the health care system, with the goal of advancing health equity for all people in the U.S. While many care options are attempting to use the home as a virtual clinical site, few have considered the structural and critical elements of the home that will be required to absorb this transference of care. Read More …
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Lurie Children’s Breaks Ground on New Outpatient Center in Schaumburg
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago broke ground on a new 75,000-square-foot outpatient center. Lurie Children’s Schaumburg Outpatient, Primary Care and Infusion Center will be located at 1895 Arbor Glen Blvd., Schaumburg, Illinois. The center will offer primary care, ancillary and diagnostic services, orthotics and prosthetics, laboratory and pharmacy services, as well as an ambulatory infusion center with the capacity to expand services. Read More …
Grand Opening Ceremony for San Antonio State Hospital Set for April 9
Officials from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony April 9 to celebrate the grand opening of the new 300-bed San Antonio State Hospital. The inpatient psychiatric hospital replaces the original facility, which first opened in 1892. It will provide long-term and short-term residential and crisis treatment for behavioral health patients. Read More …
Project Team Selected for $5B Children’s Health Replacement Campus in Texas
Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center have selected HKS and Perkins&Will as the integrated design team to collaborate on a new pediatric campus in Dallas, Texas to meet population growth demands. Read More …
Pediatric Medical Psychiatric Unit to Open at Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital
Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital plans to open a pediatric medical psychiatric unit — the first in Michigan — this spring. The new unit will treat behavioral health pediatric patients with additional medical complexities. Read More …
Gilbane, Construction Partners Deliver University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center Phase 2
Gilbane Building Company and its construction partners, Regency Construction Services, Next Generation Construction and Adrian Maldonado & Associates have completed University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center Phase 2. Located in Beachwood, Ohio, the $236-million project nearly doubles the existing footprint of the hospital, which opened in 2011. HKS served as the project’s architect. Read More …
Design-Build Team Breaks Ground on SSM Health Pediatric Academic Hospital in St. Louis
A Design-Build team, consisting of McCarthy Building Companies, HKS and the Lawrence Group, has recently started construction on a new 14-story pediatric academic hospital for SSM Health’s Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.
HKS Expands Health Practice in Raleigh, North Carolina Area
HKS is expanding its Raleigh, North Carolina health practice through the stewardship of two health design leaders: Kerry Bennett , AIA, LEED AP, LSSYB and Jerry Merritt, LEED AP BD+C. As the Raleigh-Durham area sees growth, these latest additions will build on a long history of serving clients locally, with global health design expertise. Read More …
Phoenix Children’s Building New 44,000-Square-Foot Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Construction of a new 44,000-square-foot neonatal intensive care unit has started at Phoenix Children’s Hospital — Thomas Campus. The new space, which will replace the existing NICU, is one of many expansion projects underway at the campus and will be built on the 11th floor of the patient tower. When it opens in 2024, it will continue to be Arizona’s only American Academy of Pediatrics-designated Level IV NICU, a designation indicating the highest level of medical care Read More …
