Current projects: I’m working on a 230,000-square-foot, 10-story comprehensive cancer center comprising new and renovated inpatient and outpatient care spaces. We collaborated with a large, diverse group of users to plan several departments in a way that increases face time of staff with one another and patients. Best advice you’ve received: My favorite quote is by Mahatma Gandhi: “Be the change you want to see in the world.” After I went to study at UC Berkeley, I learned no one healthcare

St. Luke’s Health Network (Bethlehem, Pa.) is planning to open St. Luke’s Carbon Campus hospital in Lehighton, Pa., this month, according to an article in wnep.com. The 155,000-square-foot, four-story facility will offer trauma emergency, acute, and critical care services and feature a 17-bed emergency department (ED), 12 intensive care unit (ICU) beds, operating rooms (ORs), private inpatient rooms, and radiology services. healthcare

Douglas King’s 41-year career has been dedicated to helping healthcare systems around the world design, develop, and renovate facilities that respond to emerging industry trends. Specifically, his work has focused on broad topics such as community health/population health management, vertical building design for limited land use, and rapid response to emergencies such as natural disasters and global pandemics—serving as critical expertise for the latter last year. In spring 2020, King helped oversee the conversion of three halls within Chicago’s McCormick healthcare

Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System (Muskogee, Okla.) is planning to open a new 58-bed VA hospital in Tulsa, Okla., according to an article in blogs.va.gov. The 90-bed hospital will be part of the Oklahoma State University Medical Center Campus in Stillwater, Okla., and will include a community living center, long-term acute care, hospice, geriatric psychiatry, inpatient psychiatry, and substance abuse treatment services. The hospital is slated to be completed in 2024. healthcare

Developer Prospect Street (Las Vegas) broke ground on a new medical office building (MOB) in Las Vegas. The 70,000-square-foot, three-story Queensridge Medical Center will be situated within 3 miles of Summerlin Hospital (Las Vegas) and will house physical therapy, primary care, dental care, ophthalmology, radiology, and imaging services. Anchor tenant Crovetti Orthopaedics (Henderson, Nev.) will operate a surgery center with four operating rooms, a cardiac catheterization lab, and overnight recovery suites.   healthcare

The new Penn Medicine Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania – Pavilion in Philadelphia has been awarded the LEED Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The 17-story, 1.5-million-square-foot facility is one of the largest certified projects in the world to achieve Gold certification for LEED Healthcare and the first hospital in the United States of more than 1 million square feet to achieve certification in LEED Healthcare. Conservation initiatives on the project included recycling construction materials, including 291 healthcare