Preventing the spread of infections has always been a priority for hospitals and health care centers, but that mission has come into sharper focus in recent years with the emergence of COVID-19.
A 20-year-old construction worker passed away after being crushed in a job site accident at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, Australia, according to Giselle Wakatama of ABC Newcastle.
Gilbane Building and Sarasota Memorial Health Care System marked a major milestone with the topping out of the Venice Campus Bed Tower expansion in Florida.
Designed by Perkins&Will, the new Uvalde Memorial Hospital brings a larger, state-of-the-art facility with improved health care services and upgraded amenities for the growing, five-county communities in rural southeastern Texas.
The new Texas hospital rises four stories with initial capacity for 95 beds. Comprehensive services include a 24/7 emergency room, general surgery, women’s services, orthopedics, interventional cardiology, gastroenterology, imaging, laboratory and pharmacy.
St. Luke’s Pediatric Specialties at the Lanark campus in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, is a 37,500-square-foot newly constructed building operated by St. Luke’s University Health Network. This medical office site consists of three floors equaling 12,500 square feet each.
With occupant health and well-being at the forefront of designers’ and specifiers’ minds, mineral fiber ceiling panels retain a long-established foothold in the industry. As the original “all-around solution” for acoustical comfort, suspended mineral fiber has also become the design standard for hospitals and medical facilities, because of their durability, ease of installation and chemically-cleanable finished surfaces.
Hospitals across the country are scrambling to add temporary capacity in response to the surge in COVID-19 patients, and they’re turning to National Gypsum’s Durasan product for a quick solution.
KAI Build and joint venture partner PARIC Corporation have completed construction on a new 260,000-square-foot Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital in Creve Coeur, Missouri.
Shannon Enterprises of W.N.Y., Inc., a designer and maker of reusable thermal and acoustic insulation, in partnership with Thomaston, Conn., Shannon Energy Resources, has completed a capital project to save energy for Attleboro, Mass.-based Sturdy Memorial Hospital.