Developing Healthcare

By a majority decision of 76%, a nine year renewal of a local property tax ensuring access to healthcare for the uninsured or underinsured was passed. This healthcare tax will be of great aid to the working poor and the providers who cater to their health needs. Comprising 22 cents per $100 of assessed value, which ...

If you’re a hospital or health system looking to grow, or physician group looking for a way out of your medical office building interest, opportunities are ripe for all in the 2013 medical real estate market. Due to constrained demand, baby boomers, progressive new forms of healthcare delivery and an influx of soon-to-be-insured Americans, the ...

I've been noticing two reoccurring themes in medical real estate: satellite care clinics and consolidation of health systems and physician practices. Both of these issues correlate with the unknown long term effects of healthcare reform as hospitals implement provisions and transform their organizations into more efficient care entities. “When its doors are open, the new satellite ...

Keeping healthcare costs down is what hospital executives want as they implement healthcare reform provisions and brace themselves for the full effects of reform. A key measure to help with the transition in this “new age” of care is by growing relations with the primary care sector. The plan to lower costs, improve quality and increase ...

On average, lighting costs are 16% of hospitals total energy consumption; composing over 40% of a hospitals electricity usage. Two cost-saving techniques that hospital executives utilize are LED lights and harvesting natural light. In addition, linear fluorescent lighting, which optimizes wattage without sacrificing quality, is growing in demand in hospital energy improvement. One such case study ...

I recently came across an interesting blog post from David Fried of Software Advice which was geared around making the most of patients’ time as they sat in doctors’ waiting rooms. The article serves as a catalyst for how physicians can differentiate themselves in this highly competitive healthcare market place where value added services can ...

As one of the fastest growing surgical segments, orthopedics is in great demand, specifically from an aging baby boomer generation, making orthopedic practices and orthopedic related medical real estate a growing interest to hospitals. Demand can be seen in two forms: outpatient procedures and specialty hospitals. With an estimated 30 to 40 percent of patients visiting ...

While construction projects are affected by the rising prices in supplies, it will lead to engineers and architects finding more efficient building techniques. This applies especially to healthcare construction projects. Due to long-term capital planning, hospitals more so than other building types, are under continuous pressure. Hospital executives are expecting a certain bid, and with an ...

Do you know how high the difference can be for an insurance company covering to treat a patient with strep throat in a hospital emergency department versus an urgent care center? Around $530 according to Lori McLaughlin, a company spokeswoman for WellPoint. Hospital emergency departments (EDs) are costly for everyone: hospital, insurer and patient alike, however ...

Medical real estate continues to stay healthy as healthcare demographic and financial markets remain favorable. Consistently outperforming other real estate sectors, medical office building (MOB) investment continues to thrive as hospital executives are moving ahead with projects that were on the drawing board. Third party developers like myself, especially now, are bringing much of the product ...

As the average wait-time to see a family doctor in this country falls to just under three weeks, according to a survey by Merritt Hawkins, a medical consultancy, and the number of doctors leaving the field continues to grow, hospitals need to find solutions addressing the increased demand for care. Where do patients go? When patients ...