Developing Healthcare

“Organizations that position themselves to provide solid, integrated care — regardless of what happens with the health care reform law — will do better,” Tom Dennison, a Syracuse University professor and health care expert. Truer words cannot have been spoken, especially as the Supreme Court just heard oral arguments defending and denouncing the constitutionality of [...]

I know I have mentioned it before, but I have to say again how well I expect satellite emergency clinics to do, especially in the near future. This topic is of great interest to me and unlike my recent article 2 Hospital Facility Trends to Ease ER Overcrowding which saw how Ambulatory Surgery Centers and [...]

An article headline caught my attention the other day, “A thriving medical industry is a boon for the building.” That statement rings true from my perspective. The medical industry is doing well, and with halted construction projects from the economic downturn back on track, medical real estate’s potential is coming into full swing. There are [...]

Even before accounting for the mass influx of Americans rushing to hospitals’ emergency departments from healthcare reform, EDs are in need of serious fine tuning as over crowding and escalating inpatient costs are on the rise. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, emergency department visits increased 117 million from 2007 to 2008 and it shows [...]

Two reoccurring themes were heard at the Bisnow Dallas Healthcare Real Estate Summit – satellite clinics and consolidation of health systems. Each of these issues ties directly with healthcare reform requirements and implementation. Hospitals are on the offensive as healthcare reform transforms the healthcare landscape into a more efficient industry. A satellite emergency clinic typically [...]

The risk of cancer continues to spread with the American Cancer Society recently stating the probability of developing cancer in someone’s lifetime in the United States is 44% for men and 38% for women. The healthcare industry is well aware of this disease wave and as a result healthcare systems are developing more space to treat [...]

The University of Kansas is perennially recognized as a Division I basketball power house. More importantly, the University of Kansas (KU) has quietly grown to be a national power house in a much more significant arena. The cancer and heart centers at the University’s teaching hospital have an esteemed national reputation and are held in [...]

Stark laws have been dominant in medical real estate for nearly 20 years, and continue to influence the relationship between medical facilities and medical practitioners. Earlier this year Rush University Medical Center paid $1,500,000 to settle allegations that the administration had violated Stark through the Federal False Claims Act.  Additionally, The Justice Department announced that [...]

Medical office real estate in general has possessed a competitive advantage over commercial real estate enabling it to become as some experts say, “recession proof,”  and it is only gaining steam. Initially the recession did have somewhat of a toll on healthcare real estate causing budget cuts and capital constrictions, but now, according to Premier [...]

Recently, at the Interface Medical Office Conference, influential hospital executives stated that investing their capital in infrastructure needs and health information technology (IT) took priority over building new or renovating existing hospital ancillary facilities. The health IT requirement mandated by the government is an immediate pressing obligation. However, the many advantages to  new facility construction [...]