Nonprofit healthcare organization Baptist Health Care (Pensacola, Fla.) celebrated the topping out of the new Baptist Health Care campus in Pensacola. Situated on 57 acres, the $636 million project comprises a new 602,000-square-foot flagship hospital with 10 floors and 264 beds and a 178,000 square-foot, 162-bed multispecialty center for oncology, infusion, women’s health, and outpatient imaging services. The project team includes Brasfield & Gorrie (general contractor; Birmingham, Ala.). The post Baptist Health Care Tops Out Florida Campus first appeared on healthcare

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Conn., has converted a former funeral home into the West Haven Clinic for behavioral health, dental, adult, pediatric, and women’s health services. The 10,000-square-foot facility houses medical and dental offices at street level, while behavioral health programs are located in the newly refinished basement, which also contains an employee break room. The healthcare organization worked with architecture, art, and advisory firm Svigals + Partners (New Haven) on the design, which includes glazed walls healthcare

In early February here in Cleveland, we’ve already had four snow days, if that tells you how things are going on the winter weather front. However, I’m reminded that professionally, at least, it’s still one of my favorite times of year. We’re just coming off of our annual Program Design Team meeting for the Healthcare Design Conference + Expo. Virtually, we gathered a jury of industry professionals who represent our association partners on the show to spend hours, and then healthcare

The global pandemic has served as a worldwide wake-up call to the ways in which we’re all vulnerable — and connected. At the beginning of the crisis, we heard constant reminders to wash our hands. Now that it’s clear COVID-19 is here to stay in one form or another, attention has turned to building in solutions for cleaner hands and designing spaces to be healthier. Clearly, nowhere is that more important than in physicians’ offices, clinics, hospitals and long-term care healthcare

Gundersen Health System (La Cross, Wis.) is planning a new replacement hospital in Whitehall, Wis. The two-story, 69,000-square-foot Gundersen Tri-County Hospital, which will replace a 1960s-era facility in Whitehall, will include private patient rooms, a trauma center, and helipad landing zone near emergency services. It will offer emergency, imaging, lab, pharmacy, surgical, dietary, rehabilitation, and transitional care services. A new ambulance and maintenance building are also planned. A renovation of a current clinic, which is connected to the existing hospital, healthcare