Case Studies Healthcare

Rob Young wasn’t making a career of digging ditches—he was a successful master electrician. But he was digging one to lay conduit the day he got a call inviting him to join MyMichigan Health in 2007. Almost 15 years later, Young is the system director for facilities and construction for the nonprofit health system, which […]

When White Plains Hospital opens its new Center for Advanced Medicine & Surgery in summer 2021, it will begin another “decanting” process, continuing its multi-year transformation of how the hospital, north of New York City, treats Westchester County residents, says Robert Stiers. “Decanting” as in the care provided at the new center will draw outpatients […]

Legacy is a word often bandied about. It’s created in many forms: the contribution of one human to the life of another, positively change in lives across all levels of society, or building structures that combine architectural style with an emphasis on humanity. In the case of Young Living Essential Oils founder, D. Gary Young, […]

Ray Miranda remembers hating his sales job so much he couldn’t stop clenching his jaw, then it became too sore to eat a Thanksgiving dinner. But with the encouragement of his mother, he picked up work at Southern California Orthopedic Institute in Van Nuys, California, and became its regional director of facilities operations. Three decades […]

Versatility may be just what the doctors ordered. Literally. So says the man in charge of support services and construction administration at an upstate New York hospital that’s immersed in an ambitious multiphase redesign and expansion. Planning for upgrades to UHS Chenango Memorial Hospital commenced in 2015, with the hammers finally ringing three years later. […]

With just two months left to finish up a new mental healthcare facility in Sacramento, construction workers in March were on high alert, given the governor’s recently released stay-at-home order as COVID-19 cases presented themselves nearby. While the entire on-site team was considered an essential workforce, some were understandably nervous. Police officers would stop them […]

It’s a disturbing but realistic analogy that Robert Thompson cites. Stringent aviation rules and regulations notwithstanding, commercial airliners crash, however infrequently. And should it be found that the company was cutting corners on maintenance, the boss had better expect repercussions. Now let’s look at hospitals, says Thompson, who’s fashioned a long and productive career as […]

It’s an exciting, and maybe overdue, concept in modern health care—the so-called microhospital. Capable of providing emergency—even trauma—treatment while sparing the patient what’s almost certain to be a longer wait in a big-city ER, microhospitals are a significant upgrade from urgent care centers and have been springing up and operating around the clock in a […]