“Everything you do as a company—everything you say, how you express yourself—counts. Everything.”
So says Kurt Graves, chairman, president and CEO of Boston-based biopharmaceutical start-up Intarcia Therapeutics, which has been growing swiftly in the last few years as the company works...
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Over 80% of the workforce at LF Driscoll has experience building healthcare facilities. And that expertise is in high demand-not only by their clients. Within the Structure Tone organization, LFD's healthcare experts were increasingly being asked to share their knowhow...
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Reading Health System's main hospital campus is in the heart of the city, an urban hub of nearly 88,000 people and the county seat for more rural surrounding towns and villages of Berks County.
The largest of its kind in Pennsylvania,...
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Since its founding in 1986, biotechnology firm Shire has grown to become a global leader in treatments for rare diseases. Now at almost 24,000 employees, this kind of growth inevitably brings changes in real estate needs. Such was the story...
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Building medical facilities of any kind can involve a host of special circumstances, from intense infection control practices to incorporating leading-edge equipment and systems. But when that medical facility is also a teaching institution, the equipment, technology and user population...
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By Charles Steiner and Ray McDonald
For obvious reasons, infection control isn’t just a “best practice” in healthcare construction. It’s a responsibility, a moral duty and even a legal obligation. Over 100,000 people die each year from hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), and...
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For nearly 40 years, the Alzheimer’s Society has been working to provide care, support and research for people with dementia and those who care for them. In 2016, the organization launched a bold new strategy that not only set out...
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Much has changed in the healthcare landscape over the course of 30 years. And Judith Kratka has seen it all. Kratka is the corporate director of facilities planning and sustainability at Abington Health, which combined with Jefferson in May 2015...
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Cutting-edge healthcare takes a cutting-edge facility. The new Medical Behavioral Unit at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is just that kind of place—the first in the country to specialize in patients with primarily acute medical issues who also have...
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It was a classic case of good news/bad news when Children’s Health determined to open a new pediatric sleep disorders center near their Dallas campus. The good news was an unused existing building was available right on the edge of...
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