In his article in the August issue of Health Facilities Management, Bill Mead discusses the financial, physical, and operational factors to be considered when making decisions regarding the renovation/expansion or replacement of a hospital facility.

By way of example Bill presents the cases of the replacement campus for Sherman Hospital in Elgin, Illinois, and the bed tower expansion for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.

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A number of Shepley Bulfinch’s current and recent healthcare clients came out high in the 2010 rankings in US News & World Report’s annual survey of US hospitals and pediatric hospitals. The survey ranks the top 30 adult and pediatric facilities in each of ten specialty areas.

Those honored in 2010 include Massachusetts General Hospital (a repeat in the survey’s ‘honor roll’); the University of Michigan Hospital and Health Centers; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; Lahey Clinic; and Yale-New Haven Hospital. Shepley Bulfinch just completed Smilow Cancer Hospital at ...[more]

Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin has won a National Honor Award from the National Terrazzo & Mosaic Association for the terrazzo floors in the hospital’s new West Tower in suburban Milwaukee, which opened in April 2009.

The hospital’s floors, which depict natural elements, were created as a way to transport children from the hospital setting to places in nature, with imagery drawn from botanical and wild life of Wisconsin. Each floor is a graphic rendition of earth, ocean and sky, culminating in a collage of nature’s images in the main ...[more]

Modern Healthcare ranked Shepley Bulfinch 20th in the country’s top healthcare architecture firms in the 2010 Construction and Design Survey, up nine points from last year. Results of the annual survey were published in the magazine’s March 15 issue.

The firm’s major healthcare clients in 2009 included Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven Hospital; Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin; Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; Children’s Hospital Boston; and Sherman Hospital in Elgin, Illinois, one of the world’s largest geothermal healthcare projects.

The firm began its healthcare design practice in ...[more]

Three of Shepley Bulfinch’s current pediatric healthcare clients were among those named in US News and World Report’s annual survey of the Best Children’s Hospitals in the US. The survey ranks the top 30 pediatric facilities in each of ten specialty areas.

Children’s Hospital Boston, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, were recognized in a number of categories. Children’s Hospital Boston, a client since 1914, was one of just ten nationwide to be ranked in the top 30 in all ten specialties. Shepley’s new bed tower for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin opened in March, and construction is scheduled to begin in 2010 on a new physicians’ office building ...[more]

MILWAUKEE, WI – The signs are up, the art is hung, and the ribbon has been cut to mark the opening today of the 12-story, 425,000 sf patient tower tower expansion for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. Children’s CFO Tim Birkenstock calls the new tower “an essential step needed to keep pace with our patient service demands” for one of the country’s busiest pediatric medical centers, with more than 25,000 inpatient admissions each year.

The new facility, which began construction in 2005, features a larger pediatric intensive care unit and an expanded Herma Heart Center, as well as patient rooms integrated with the latest medical technologies. Responding to the important role ...[more]