Developing Healthcare

Healthcare is costly, especially on an inpatient basis, which is why it is not surprising that an established and growing trend has been the development of outpatient centers. According to a Healthcare Financial Management Association article, community hospitals gross outpatient revenues grew from 19 percent of all revenues to 38% of all revenues from 1987-2007. [...]

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 [...]

Health facilities consume about two and one-half times the power of a standard commercial  facility. They are massive consumers of energy and utilities due to a multitude of contributing factors including:  lengthy hours of operations, constant volume environmentally filtered air management, complex waste control systems, and extraordinary primary and secondary power equipment. Healthcare facilities are easily identifiable as a case [...]

Healthcare reform is by far the most dissected, discussed and debated topic in the medical industry.  Federally mandated healthcare legislation, and the yet to be determined detailed fine print, influences every decision a hospital executive considers on a daily basis. It may come as a surprise then that hospital executives are moving forward with construction [...]

It is a common assumption that baby boomers will account for a majority of new healthcare recipients in the coming years, and consequently drive advanced medical care with an increased demand for new medical facilities. The estimated 8.6 million 50-64 year olds lacking insurance as of 2009, constitutes the demographic that more frequently uses medical [...]

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 [...]