By Andis Robeznieks | September 06, 2010
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The blurring of hospital and hospitality continued in the 25th annual Modern Healthcare Design Awards with some healthcare architects consulting with hotel and resort designers on how to best help patients feel at home.
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By Andis Robeznieks | September 06, 2010
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With its saturation of color and richness of textures, design award judge Henry Chao says the Bellevue Medical Center has “one of the most beautiful interiors” among the 69 entries in this year's contest.
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By Andis Robeznieks | September 06, 2010
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The 386-bed Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend, part of PeaceHealth, goes so far in pushing the hospital-hospitality envelope, architects on the design award jury were shocked that the hospital executives on the panel had a positive view of the project.
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By Andis Robeznieks | September 06, 2010
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Gig Harbor, Wash., is described as a place where “the forest meets the sea,” and Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects wanted to take every advantage it could with the surroundings when designing these facilities.
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By Andis Robeznieks | September 06, 2010
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In addition to designing a massive 2,000-bed, 2.4 million-square-foot facility, Irvine, Calif.-based HMC Architects was tasked with creating a “civic icon” to serve as an anchor for a brand-new community in the Shunde District of Foshan, China.
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By Andis Robeznieks | September 06, 2010
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The new three-story, $26.3 million addition to the Southcentral Foundation Primary Care Clinic in Anchorage, Alaska, is designed to foster patient-centered, integrated care, with room for teams to collaborate and support each other, says Richard Dallam, a partner with NBBJ architects.
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By Andis Robeznieks | September 06, 2010
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Set on a wooded, 12-acre site, the new $53 million Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound, which opened in April, will drive further development on a 158-acre site called the River Walk at Central Park, which will include medical, office, residential, restaurant and retail uses.
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Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has always been regarded as a bit of a prophet. But no one could have guessed in 1964 when he wrote “you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone/for the times they are a-changin' ” that 45 years later those lyrics would become a sage warning for U.S. healthcare businesses.
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Modern Healthcare's seventh annual Group Purchasing Survey shows that GPOs continue to diversify their offerings of services beyond traditional supplier contracting in an effort to address the growing demands of their members, who are grappling with a healthcare system under reform.
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By Jessica Zigmond | August 23, 2010
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Jerry Reed recalls clearly the day when Sen. Harry Reid turned to him at a congressional committee hearing in 1996 and asked why suicide rates in America were considerably higher in the nation's Western mountain states.
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Hospitals have long been called the most complex businesses on Earth, and the job of running them is about to get much more difficult. So that means salaries are rising to attract nimble, complexity-minded leaders who can balance sophisticated hospital operations and the financial wizardry required to manage large, cash-intensive businesses with uncertain payment sources. Right?
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By Andis Robeznieks | July 19, 2010
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While the healthcare reform debate heated up the nation's airwaves and cyberspace in 2009, physician salaries saw some significant cooling, according to Modern Healthcare's 17th annual Physician Compensation Survey.
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For Modern Healthcare's 17th annual Physician Compensation Survey, 15 associations or healthcare data firms provided information on 23 specialties. But many of the firms offer comprehensive data on an even wider variety of specialties.
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