Communication and Trust: Key Ingredients in Occupied Health Care Renovations

By Mark Ortiz, Director of Client Services, AP Healthcare (www.a-p.com)
(05/08/2012)
Unlike any other type of construction, the ever-changing challenges of building today’s health care facilities are many.

Plans Under Way to Replace Aging NorCal Hospital


(01/11/2012)
Designs are under state review on the new Frank R. Howard Memorial Hospital in Willits, Calif. to replace the original

Oregon Kaiser Permanente Facility to Go Solar


(11/17/2011)
As part of its effort to secure LEED Gold certification, Kaiser Permanente will install high performance solar panels at its Westside Medical Center branch, currently under construction.

Work on New Kaiser Project Begins


(04/25/2011)
Construction is under way on a new 108,000-square-foot hospital annex building to precede construction of a new main hospital and laboratory renovations at Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center in Harbor City.

East Meets West At New UCSF Center


(04/20/2011)
The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco Mount Zion campus offers Western medical treatment and healing practices from around the world under one roof.

$103 Million Project Begins in California


(03/16/2011)
HBE Corp. started construction of a new $103 million hospital in Goleta.

Facility Focus: John Muir Medical Centers

By Helen Christophi
(02/18/2011)
With architectural updates that include elements of hospitality, the John Muir Medical Center campuses in neighboring Northern California cities are drawing rave reviews.

UCSF Stem Cell Research Building Opens

By Helen Christophi
(02/11/2011)
Located on a hillside on the university’s Parnassus campus, the new $123 million building houses the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research. The facility is considered a significant step forward in UCSF’s stem cell research program.

Treatment, Technology a Focus at Mission Bay

By Michelle Brunetti
(01/25/2011)
But by 2014, the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay will have parlayed a decade or more of vision and planning into a world-class medical facility with the opening of three breakthrough hospitals: Children’s, Women’s Specialty and Cancer.

Cancer Center Employs Holistic Design


(01/10/2011)
Inside the $31 million, 55,000-square-foot Roy and Patricia Disney Family Cancer Center, peaceful sanctuaries like healing gardens and a meditation room work in unison with a single IT network that notifies staff when a patient arrives for treatment and adjusts lighting, music, and temperatures to preset preferences when a patient enters certain rooms.