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,

Construction on the new Piedmont-Newnan Hospital in Newnan, Georgia, will restart. Reports the Times-Herald.com, “A groundbreaking for the 136-bed facility on Poplar Road was held in the fall of 2008, and grading began. But after only a few weeks, construction was halted because of the economic downturn and associated problems with financing.”

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have resolved the issues regarding the provision of healthcare services in western Forsyth County and in Davie County, North Carolina. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Certificate of Need Section, has approved an agreement that will allow both organizations to obtain certificates of need to build hospitals and provide other medical services in those areas.

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A second perspective relates to system efficiency, where unnecessary walking can be considered as waste. It is a type of nonproductive use of nurses’ time, which is better utilized at bedside or other care tasks that add value to the services rendered. Distance walked and time spent in walking is considered an important metric in Lean operations design and intervention. Furthermore, the extensive

Project category: Project in progress (December 2013)

Chief administrator: Kenneth L. Meehan, Executive Vice-President of Operations, (925) 947-5348

Firm: Ratcliff, (510) 899-6425

Design team: Crodd Chin, Project Designer; Christopher “Kit” Ratcliff, AIA, NCARB, LEED, Principal-in-Charge; Thomas Patterson, AIA, Project Manager; Bill Wong, AIA, CSI, CCS, LEED,

recently released a rendering showing what the hospital campus may look like in 2013. The proposed design features neutral stones, glass, and metal, chosen to complement the current architecture. The first phase of construction, scheduled to begin in early 2011, will be lower in elevation than the tallest existing building on campus.

Phase One is the first of four phases—the

, announces the completion of the Methodist Stone Oak Hospital located in San Antonio, Texas. The hospital, designed by HOK Architects, is the first new facility built in the area in more than a decade. The facility holds 132 beds with an overall master plan that allows for as many as 350 beds.

The hospital, which has been coined as the “hospital of the future,” will open

Via Christi Hospital in Wichita, Kansas, designed by architecture, planning, engineering, interior design, and program management firm LEO A DALY, officially opened its doors.

The 144,000-square-foot, three-story freestanding facility, which sits on a 120-acre greenfield site, is the only full-service community hospital in west Wichita. It features 68 private patient rooms,

Construction has begun on the new $1-billion Royal Children’s Hospital in Australia. The facility will be Australia’s first five-star Green Star hospital. The 1.3-million-sq.-ft. children’s hospital will be built on a greenfield park land site. It will boast 272 inpatient beds, 81 outpatient beds and 30 emergency cubicles. A 15-room surgery suite is also part of the project.

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“Prepare a list of the facilities that you need to add here and submit a proposal ,” said Mamata. “I have already submitted a proposal, ma’am ,” Manna replied. “Ensure that steps are taken to improve the standard of the service and make sure that no patient is ever refused,” she instructed. Even as the superintendent nodded in agreement , Mamata fired her