hospital construction news from FierceHealthcare

Ah, it does the heart good to see hospitals with the cash to start building again. The facility in this case is the Ohio State University Medical Center, which has set plans to spend $1 billion on a... Read more...

Now here's a situation no hospital administrator wants to face: This week, a judge ordered a San Fernando Valley hospital to halt construction on its $180-million expansion until the Los Angeles City... Read more...

Have you noticed, lately, that when hospitals and health systems announce a new facility, it usually comes with private rooms? That's not a coincidence. Increasingly, hospital planners are reaching a... Read more...

Despite 2007 being a strong year for healthcare construction--with 3,552 projects totaling $35.4 billion--the business has slowed down marginally since October, and looks like it will continue its... Read more...

A new report suggests that the hospital and health facility building boom will continue at least through 2010, when it's likely to exceed $60 billion. That's a big number, even by the industry's... Read more...

The hospital building boom is having a particularly strong season in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area of North Carolina, familiarly known as the Triangle--though there's a building frenzy underway... Read more...

A proposed move of Silver Cross Hospital from its current location in Joliet, Illinois, to a new facility in nearby New Lenox likely would increase the distance ambulances would have to travel... Read more...

Like states across the U.S., Maryland is seeing a growing shortage of healthcare professionals, a Maryland Hospital Association study says. As elsewhere, with nurses retiring and baby boomers aging,... Read more...

Despite facing vocal opposition, Sutter Health has gotten approval from the California Health Facilities Financing Authority (CHFFA) to proceed with its proposed $958 million bond issue. Sutter had hoped to proceed in late 2006, but the CHFFA postponed the decision, in part, perhaps, due to complaints by the Service Employees International United-United Healthcare West, which had …

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Catholic Healthcare West, which operates 42 hospitals across California, Arizona and Nevada, has set plans to spend $9 billion on capital projects over the next 10 years. CHW plans to use the money to build new hospitals, add seismic improvements to hospitals in earthquake zones, add health information technology and buy new clinical equipment, as well as making acquisitions where it makes sense. This plan, which would allocate $900 million for each year, represents a big jump in spending …

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