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Integration, step-by-step
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For health care facilities, integration can cut costs and boost productivity. The key is DEVELOPING A PLAN that meets the unique needs of the organization - today and tomorrow
The past decade has seen a major restructuring of the American health care system, with alliances among providers to heighten efficiency and create economies of scale, and smaller facilities forced to transform themselves to survive in the competitive environment. At the same time, hospitals and medical centers ...
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Taking the pulse of the market. (design trends for health care facilities)(includes related article) (Health Care Supplement to Interior Design)
Interior Design
; Technologies are changing; the players are changing. What, exactly, the future will bring is anyone's guess. Here, the experts hazard a few. Somewhere between our wildest fantasies and worst nightmares lies the reality of modern health care facilities. If some inner city hospitals make St.
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Health care facilities face challenges to stay competitive. (Mid-Year Report)
Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News
; The health care industry has become a national burden. Fully 14% of the current federal budget is spent on health care, and is projected to rise as high as 18% by the year 2000 unless reforms are put into place. As a result, government reimbursement to hospitals through the Medicare and Medicaid
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The Softening of Health Care Facilities
Flooring
; Technological enhancements help carpet meet growing performance and style demands for these applications. Art Flanagan Health care facilities want both patients and visitors to have that warm and fuzzy feeling. But is providing more carpeted areas the way to reach this goal? There is no denying
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Here's a guide to planning new health care facilities.(planning and designing)
Health Care Strategic Management
; Planning a new health care facility is a one- or two-time project for most hospital planners and executives. A planner might work on a hospital, an ambulatory care surgery center, a diagnostic center, ancillary departments and one each of various other special-use facilities. And while health care
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Irgens forms new division to build health care facilities
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Irgens forms new division to build health care facilities By TOM DAYKIN tdaykin@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel Friday, March 28, 2003 Irgens Development Partners has created a new division to build health care facilities as a way to take a greater share of that expanding development segment.
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Health care facilities cope with new environmental risks.
Risk Management
; The well-publicized washing ashore of medical wastes along the beaches of New York, New Jersey and Delaware in the late 1980s marked the end of the age of environmental innocence for hospitals and other health care facilities. Since that time, health care facilities have increasingly come under the
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Wisconsin-Based Developer Forms Division to Build Health Care Facilities.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; By Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 28--Irgens Development Partners has created a new division to build health ... 2003, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News.
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PHS Guidelines for Management of Occupational Exposure to HBV, HCV and HIV: Implementation for Health Care Facilities.(Public Health Service, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, human immunodeficiency virus)
American Family Physician
; The U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) has updated and consolidated all of its previous guidelines and recommendations for the management of health care personnel who have occupational exposure to blood and other body fluids that might contain hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) or human
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ASHRAE to provide design guidance for green health care facilities.(GIB Update)(Brief article)
Engineered Systems
; Working to make advanced energy efficiency guidance mainstream, ASHRAE is developing a code-intended baseline sustainability standard for health care facilities. Proposed Standard 189.2, Design, Construction and Operation of High-Performance Green Health Care Facilities, will prescribe the
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COVERDELL UNITES COLLEAGUES FOR RURAL HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
Capitol Hill Press Releases
; 00-00-0000 FOR IMMEDIATE RLEASE November 3, 1999 COVERDELL UNITES COLLEAGUES FOR RURAL HEALTH CARE FACILITIES WASHINGTON, D. C. - U. S. Sen. Paul Coverdell (R-Ga who will replace the late Sen. John Chafee on the Senate Finance Committee, this week united Republican leaders behind arguments for
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