Facility Construction and Design Novant Health announced Monday that it received approval from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to build a 20-bed hospital and a freestanding emergency department in Brunswick County. “The new facilities will elevate access to healthcare in North Carolina’s fastest-growing county,” the health system stated. Novant Health Leland…
Tennessee newspaper The Daily Times reports that Prisma Health is “one approval away” from constructing a 129,000-square-foot outpatient surgery center on land near the Royal Oaks subdivision in Maryville, Tenn., after the city’s Planning Commission approved a rezoning and land use reclassification request last week. The commissioners are consider rezoning an…
Medical office building (MOB) occupancy is at a record high of 92.7% and “institutional investment is increasing, but policy changes and financial pressures are heightening risk for both occupiers and investors,” according to a report from JLL, a professional services firm specializing in commercial real estate. JLL says the high occupancy…
According to a report in The Daily Bruin, the UC Board of Regents yesterday approved a $298.2 million budget Wednesday to convert an El Segundo, Calif., office building into a UCLA Health complex called UCLA Health South Bay. According to the campus newspaper, the renovated building will contain a Sports…
Is a hybrid operating room an effective marketing tool? For one health system, it garnered coverage on local TV news. KSAT-TV in San Antonio last week reported that Baptist Health System’s hybrid OR “saved an 82-year-old patient’s life” after doctors found an aneurysm. The patient, facing major surgery for an…
Wake Tech, North Carolina’s largest community college, last week lifted the final beam on what it says will be one of the nation’s “largest and most comprehensive simulation hospitals.” Wake Tech said the Perry Family Simulation Hospital, scheduled to open on its Perry Health Sciences Campus in Raleigh in fall…
Cleveland Clinic this week announced milestones in its expansion plans in Palm Beach County, Fla., including the demolition of its current hospital structure and hospital site preparation this year and a new outpatient center and ASC in 2027. A 200-bed hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla., planned to open at…
Prisma Health and Atlas Healthcare Partners last week launched a joint venture (JV) to develop a network of ASCs in two Southeastern states. The partners plan to develop and operate “more than 15” ASCs in key markets in the region, including the South Carolina markets of Greenville-Spartanburg, Columbia, Charleston, and…
If you’re new to the process of developing an ASC, or are looking for a refresher that reframes what really matters when doing so, a lengthy article published recently on the website Money Inc methodically lays out numerous valuable best practices, with an eye on preventing your valuable team members…
RWJBarnabas Health announced this week that it has raised the final steel beam of its new three-story, 67,000-square-foot Multi-Specialty Center. The facility will be a joint venture among RWJBarnabas Health, New Jersey Imaging Network, Seaview Orthopaedics, and Family First Urgent Care. Construction is expected to be completed in late 2026…
