Construction firm Robins & Morton joined the Texas Health and Human Services Commission on Aug. 28 for the official groundbreaking of Terrell State Hospital’s replacement facility. The 415,500-square-foot, 250-bed project will replace a 139-year-old psychiatric hospital. For nearly 140 years, Terrell State Hospital has played a crucial role in providing services to Texans in need. The hospital first opened in July 1885 after the 18th Texas Legislature passed a bill calling for the establishment of a psychiatric hospital in North Texas. Today, the hospital serves 31 counties. The new facility will include therapeutic spaces that align with evidence-based treatment. Single-person … Read more
The Mercy Center for Performance Medicine and Specialty Care in St. Louis Highlights Patient Experience
The Mercy Center for Performance Medicine & Specialty Care and its connected 1,000-space parking garage has opened. The multispecialty center is located on the campus of Mercy Hospital St. Louis (Missouri) and is one of the largest and most technology-rich outpatient surgery centers in the United States. The high-tech, 272,000-square-foot, five-level outpatient center is designed with the patient experience in mind. Specialties at the new building include neurosurgery, orthopedics and sports medicine, reconstructive surgery, bariatrics and urology. The center features digitized wayfinding and a digital concierge service that seamlessly guide patients and families through their care experience. The construction team employed … Read more
Medical College of Wisconsin Breaks Ground for Cancer Research Building
The Medical College of Wisconsin broke ground on its new 150,000-square-foot cancer research building that will help mitigate the cancer burden throughout eastern Wisconsin and beyond. MCW leadership along with supporters from the community and government representatives took part in the groundbreaking event at the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center. Once complete, the MCW Cancer Research Building will be the only cancer-dedicated research facility in Milwaukee and eastern Wisconsin. It will centralize the MCW cancer research programs, which now consist of nearly 700 researchers in 135 labs campuswide. It will also create space to enable more synergistic cancer research projects to … Read more