Green ops: Auditing facilities for environmental performance
Health Facilities Management Magazine
U.S. hospitals are widely incorporating sustainable practices in new construction, renovations and ongoing operations. This can reduce energy consumption and lower the overall impact a hospital organization has on the environment as well as elevate staff confidence and retention rates and even improve patient outcomes.More

Shore Health seeks design for new hospital
Medical Construction & Design
Shore Health System, the Eastern Shore affiliate of the University of Maryland Medical System, is looking for an architecture firm to help it win approval from the state to build a new 200-bed hospital.More

K/E Centers for Advanced Medicine set to open comprehensive multi-specialty facility in Las Vegas
PR Newswire
Set to enhance the way health care is approached in Southern Nevada, K/E Centers for Advanced Medicine, in affiliation with St. Rose Dominican Hospitals, has announced its plans to open a multi-specialty facility in Las Vegas.More

Imaging experience: Technology is only part of the design equation
Health Facilities Management Magazine
The architecture and design of today's imaging spaces – whether a single room upgrade or a department master plan – is fundamentally linked to the healing process for patients, the perception of care by families and the quality of work performed by staff. Architectural design practice demands more than design by anecdote or habit, but a design based on evidence and research related to outcomes.More

New state-of-the-art El Camino Hospital now open for patient care
Medical Construction & Design
Based in southern California, El Camino Hospital, the Hospital of Silicon Valley, completed its move into the new, technologically and seismically advanced facility. After completing several practice runs led by the activation team, hospital officials report all patients were safely transferred to the new facility. More

Sustainable health care by design
Express Healthcare Management
Since the past decade, we have seen reports about high-performance schools that enhance learning, sustainable office buildings that improve worker productivity, green retail spaces that experience increased sales and energy-efficient residential units that sell faster than the competition. On the converse, relatively few health care facilities have made similar headlines.More

Design details for Issaquah Highlands, Wash., hospital debut
Sammamish Review
Planners said the Swedish Medical Center campus under construction in the Issaquah Highlands, Wash., would serve as a community hub, with a lush courtyard and free Wi-Fi to lure visitors. Issaquah and project planners unveiled new details Oct. 20 about the hospital, the first major employer to take root in the highlands.More

Lee Memorial decides on 5-story, $150 million expansion of The Children's Hospital
Naples Daily News
The Lee Memorial Healthcare System is moving forward with plans to build a five-story, $150 million patient tower to expand The Children's Hospital at HealthPark Medical Center in Fort Myers, Fla., to handle growth out to 2020.More

Children's Mercy Hospital plans additional tower, new clinic
Kansas City Star
Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., is building a 73-room patient tower on its Hospital Hill campus and an outpatient clinic in Independence, continuing a master plan announced two years ago.More

Health care sector accounts for eight percent of U.S. carbon footprint
Environmental Leader
The U.S. health care sector accounts for nearly a tenth of the country's carbon-dioxide emissions, according to University of Chicago researchers. The research takes into account activities such as hospital care, scientific research and the production and distribution of pharmaceutical drugs.More