Design is now underway for Bridgeport Hospital’s Park Avenue Campus Outpatient Center in Trumbull, which will provide a new level of access to quality outpatient care in southwestern Connecticut.

The center’s range of services will include a comprehensive cancer center, including medical oncology and radiation services and a breast care center, ambulatory surgery, gastroenterology services, full service radiology, a Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital Specialty Center, rehabilitation, and other physician offices. The new facility will create a welcoming, accessible outpatient care campus, joining two existing buildings that house radiation oncology and medical offices, in a park-like suburban setting.

The garden-level cancer center emphasizes patient privacy and healing, with a dedicated entrance and parking ...[more]

In healthcare today, providing better care for patients increasingly means integrating complex technologies. As a healthcare leader planning a new or expanded facility, how can you construct and navigate a planning and decision-making process with such significant long-term implications? Start by asking the right questions.

To determine the required physical plant space for these innovative facilities, first define your current needs.

-       What would you like to gain or learn when using this type of equipment?
-       Do you want to introduce more than two modalities within a space?
-       How important will it be to plan for future upgrades?

Answers to these questions will have a significant impact on structural, mechanical, and ...[more]

Danvers, MA – A ground breaking celebration was held today for the new Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care in this North Shore community outside of Boston.

The 122,000-square-foot outpatient facility and 80,000-square-foot medical office building are a joint project for North Shore Medical Center (NSMC) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The center will provide the latest in cardiac diagnostics, suites for minimally invasive surgery, and advanced imaging services, as well as serve as the expanded home of the new MGH–NSMC Cancer Center.

North Shore Medical Center President and CEO Robert G. Norton and MGH President and CEO Peter L. Slavin, MD, spoke at today’s ceremony. More than 150 guests signed ...[more]

Creating an environment that promotes healing complements the development and practice of treatments that heal. That was the thinking behind the design of Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven Hospital, which has received an Award of Merit in the Connecticut Green Building Council’s (CTGBC) 2011 Green Building Design Awards. Norman Roth, Yale-New Haven’s Senior Vice President of Administration, accepted the award at the June 21 ceremony in New Haven.

The hospital was designed by Shepley Bulfinch and landscape architects Towers|Golde, and built by Turner Construction.

Eight years in the making, the 516,000 square foot cancer hospital ...[more]

JANESVILLE, WI – Ground was broken today for the new SSM-DHS Medical Campus, designed by Shepley Bulfinch in association with Erdman, a Cogdell Spencer Company. The 270,000 sf, $140 million healthcare facility will be built on a 50-acre site owned by SSM Health Care of Wisconsin (SSM), and Dean Health System (DHS) of Madison.

The campus, which will comprise the 150,000 sf St Mary’s Janesville Hospital and an adjacent 120,000 sf physician office complex, will offer the community a choice of healthcare services inside new technologically advanced facilities. The innovative new hospital will house 50 private rooms on four floors, a fully integrated electronic health record, state-of-the-art operating rooms, imaging center, ...[more]

The Sophia Gordon Cancer Center at Lahey Clinic was dedicated in a ceremony today in Burlington, Massachusetts. The 50,000 s.f. outpatient cancer center includes a radiation therapy suite and hematology suite, as well as a patient educaiton and family resource area.

The new center is a major part of the Lahey Clinic’s 190,000 s.f. expansion project. In addition to designing the Gordon Cancer Center, Shepley Bulfinch created the master plan for the Lahey Clinic campus in Burlington.

LEED certification for the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Specialty Center-Detroit sends a powerful message: helping children grow up healthy starts with a healthy environment. The Center, which was completed in 2012, is the first LEED-certified project on the hospital’s urban campus.

“We are very pleased to offer our patients and families and staff this facility built just for them,” says Herman Gray, MD, president, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan. “Knowing that the building is also LEED certified supports our mission to continually work to improve the ...[more]