Facility Construction and Design 
During her session at Periop Leader Week 2026, “How to Open a Cardiac ASC,” Deb Yoder, RN, MHA, BSN, CNOR, CASC, CEO of Aligned Surgery & Healthcare Consulting, laid everything out for ASC leaders in candid, practical terms. Her overriding message: A cardiovascular (CV) ASC is not your average or…
According to The Folsom Times, Kaiser Permanente has officially broken ground on a large-scale expansion of its Folsom, Calif., medical campus to add a new 187,000-square-foot “comprehensive care center that will bring additional primary care, specialty medical services, urgent care and outpatient treatment options to the growing community” without patients…
UW Health will open a $140 million expansion at East Madison Hospital on Nov. 2 that will significantly increase its surgical capacity. The project has added 120,000 square feet to the Madison, Wis., hospital, expanding its footprint to roughly 620,000 square feet. Its number of ORs will increase from 14…
Acute-care, not-for-profit teaching hospital Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside, N.Y., has launched a phased opening of nine new OR suites on the second floor of its four-story Feil Family Pavilion to expand access to advanced procedures at its campus. Five new ORs are now operational, with four more slated…
St. Luke’s University Health Network has opened St. Luke’s Heart Hospital on its St. Luke’s Anderson Campus in Easton, Pa. Construction began in 2024 on the five-story, approximately 355,000-square-foot, $252 million facility—the “largest construction project in St. Luke’s more than 150-year history, both in dollar figure and square footage,” according…
AI may prove consequential “in the distributed, high-volume world of outpatient care, because it changes not only how we draw these buildings but how they perform.” So writes Charles Michelson, AIA, ACHA, LEED AP, president of Saltz Michelson Architects, in an article for South Florida Hospital News & Healthcare Report.…
Intermountain Health has revealed plans for a new Intermountain LDS Hospital in downtown Salt Lake City. The facility, which would be located on an approximately eight-acre site that had been the longtime home to a Sears store that closed in 2018, would “anchor a major downtown development and provide a…
Newsweek has published its rankings of the World’s Greenest Hospitals of 2026. The inaugural edition of the program highlights the 250 hospitals that the publication finds are “leading the way in sustainability by reducing emissions, conserving water and improving waste management.” Newsweek, which partnered with data gathering and visualization firm…
St. Luke’s University Health Network previewed its new $252 million St. Luke’s Heart Hospital, which will open at the 500-acre St. Luke’s Anderson Campus in Easton, Pa., this October. The five-story, 140-bed, approximately 355,000-square-foot facility is the largest construction project in St. Luke’s more-than-150-year history, both in terms of dollar…
Southwoods Health announced it has completed a multimillion-dollar, 40,000-square-foot expansion and renovation project at The Surgical Hospital at Southwoods in Boardman, Ohio. The system stressed that much of the work on the 30-year-old facility was designed to “further enhance the patient experience.” It stated that the upgrades “prioritize patient privacy…
