Officials of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center cut the ribbon on a new Shepley Bulfinch-designed Outpatient Surgery Center (OSC) on June 17.

The ribbon cutting was part of a public open house for the OSC, which officially opened to patients on June 22. The open house included tours of the facility and demonstrations of operating room technologies.

“The OSC is designed to enhance the efficiency of current operations by performing many outpatient surgical procedures at a single, specialized facility, and reserving DHMC’s current surgical suites for more complex surgical procedures and emergency trauma cases,” said OSC Medical ...[more]

Shepley Bulfinch’s design of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is cited as a model of how to design for flexible implementation in Richard De Neufville’s new book, “Flexibility in Engineering Design,” published by MIT Press in September. The original design of the medical center, which opened in 1991, enabled subsequent vertical and horizontal expansion.

The book offers a high-level overview of why flexibility in design is needed to deliver significantly increased value. It describes in detail methods to identify, select, and implement useful flexibility. For Dartmouth-Hitchcock, that meant development and execution of a ...[more]

Rankings of “America’s Best Hospitals” published today by US News and World Report include nineteen hospitals and medical centers which Shepley Bulfinch is proud to count among our clients. Six of those (marked *) are among only 19 hospitals nationwide to make the report’s Honor Roll.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Brigham and Women’s Hospital*

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Lahey Clinic

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas

Maine Medical Center

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Massachusetts General Hospital*

McLean Hospital

NY Presbyterian University Hospital*

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

Rush University Medical Center

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

University of Michigan Health Systems*

Vanderbilt University Medical Center*

Virginia Commonwealth University Health Systems

Yale-New Haven Hospital*

Recent projects for these clients include the University of Michigan’s new Cardiovascular ...[more]