The Royal Hospital in Muscat, Oman, is expanding its National Oncology Centre and the National Cardiology Centre. The hospital is expected to open the expanded oncology centre with 24 additional beds, which will double the number of existing beds. The oncology expansion will enhance the ICU, wards and paediatric tumour wards, offices of doctors, co-ordinators and other supportive services. Upon completion,...

University General Health System has signed an agreement with the City of Alvin in Texas, US, to develop a 27,000ft² critical care hospital in the area….

NorthBay Healthcare’s VacaValley Hospital in California, US, is planning to double the size of its hospital in a $118m renovation project….

More than 600 medical staff underwent months of intensive training and preparation, and the hospital set up a command center to monitor the progress of each patient being moved from the old hospital to the adjoining seven-story Marion & John E. Anderson Pavilion. Photos: Hospital patients on the move The new emergency department, which features 26 private exam rooms and a larger, better-equipped...

The number of NHS hospital beds in the UK should be cut by at least 10% to free up funds for dementia care, a group of MPs and peers says. The All Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia says this would free £1bn that would be better spent on improving community-based services. Its report says failure to act will result in an "unqualified crisis". However, some experts have warned that the...

According to the board’s website, the reasons stated include: * Memorial was unable to provide proof the new building in Shiloh would meet target occupancy of 75 percent of its beds. * Hospitals in the surrounding area are operating below state recommended occupancy targets; the new hospital could have a harm other hospitals in the area. * The proposed new building only has 16 planned ob/gyn...

An addition to Baptist Medical Center South in Jacksonville, Florida, was recently completed by The Haskell Company. The addition to the existing medical center includes a new eight-story patient tower with a ninth floor mechanical penthouse and a six-story parking structure. The new tower addition features a 14-bed newborn intensive care unit that is an extension of the NICU services provided by Wolfson...

The report of an outbreak of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Hospital Trust, carried out by the Healthcare Commission, and the number of deaths in this trust is an indictment of conditions of care in British hospitals. A similar report by the Healthcare Commission one year earlier on a C. diff outbreak in Stoke Mandeville revealed the same issues. A recent outbreak...

Who would have imagined 10 years ago, when industry experts were predicting the downsizing of the inpatient hospital, that 2005 would bring a boom in construction of bed towers? Besides the increased need for beds in many markets, the obsolescence of the hospital chassis created during the Hill-Burton period of the late 1940s through the mid-1970s has forced many a hospital to finally build new after...

The Methodist Medical Center of Illinois (MMCI) in Peoria is going through a major campus restoration, and Chicago-based Lillibridge, one of the nation’s largest private healthcare real estate firms, has been hired as the hospital’s project manager. Lillibridge will manage all of the aspects of the campus redevelopment including a 180-bed hospital addition, a community pavilion, and a parking deck...