Concord Hospital replaced its central heating and cooling plants. This new central plant includes 1,800 horsepower high pressure steam boilers and 3,000 tons of chiller capacity.
Partners HealthCare’s Massachusetts Mental Health Center built a new 61,693 sq ft facility, consisting of three new buildings that include research and office space, outpatient clinics, imaging center, residential units, redevelopment space, and a below ground parking structure.
The Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital built an addition to the main acute care hospital facility of approximately 7,600 sq ft and renovated approximately 35,000 sq ft on the main and lower levels.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Medical School built complex diagnostic and research suites that include two 3-tesla MRI machines, one 9.4-tesla MRI machine for clinical and research functions, and positive electron tomography (PET) and fluoroscopy (X-ray) imaging rooms.
Marlborough Hospital, a member of the UMass Memorial Health Care system, built a new state-of-the-art Cancer Pavilion at the rear of the Union Street Hospital.
Core Physicians and Exeter Hospital built a new facility, the Epping Regional Health Center, to provide services such as family medicine, pediatrics, rehabilitation, imaging, lab services, and mobile digital mammography.
St. Joseph Hospital renovated the first floor of its emergency department—the entry and registration areas, triage spaces, trauma rooms, examination rooms, waiting rooms, psychiatric observation rooms, nurse stations, and other support space.
St. Joseph Hospital built and renovated several buildings including renovating a 25,000 sq ft emergency department, diagnostic imaging suite, and breast cancer and surgery unit, building a new two-level parking garage, a new 78,000 sq ft ambulatory care facility,... read more »
The Partners Health Care North Shore Center for Outpatient Care built a new ambulatory care center and core/shell for a medical office building, based on a retail model of an outpatient healthcare facility.
Concord Hospital added several operating rooms, four day surgery operating rooms,... read more »
Infrastructure Design for Reduced Patient Readmissions
With today’s challenging reimbursement structures, healthcare providers can drive better bottom line performance by reducing patient readmissions. This guide provides recommendations, insight, best practices, and examples illustrating how smart infrastructure investments can help to reduce avoidable patient readmissions and ultimately improve the overall finances of a healthcare organization and the health and safety of their patients, providers and visitors. Topics including air handling and sterile fields, air infiltration and disinfection, design and management of sterile spaces, water treatment, and improved patient healing environments are addressed.