HFA Architecture + Engineering has expanded its healthcare design team with the addition of Principal and Healthcare Practice Leader Paul Sabal (AIA, ACHA, NCARB, LEED AP). Sabal is a registered architect and interior designer with more than four decades of experience in healthcare design and construction. He is board-certified in healthcare architecture from the American College of Healthcare Architects. “HFA is uniquely positioned to provide innovative healthcare clients with project design and delivery strategies that lower costs, improve quality, automate processes and increase speed to ma ..read more

By HCO Staff SAN FRANCISCO—Sutter Health has just announced, as part of its long-term vision to expand services and increase patient access to high-quality care in San Francisco, a $442 million investment in the Mission Bernal neighborhood. Sutter will engage community support as part of building a new, five-story, 129,000-square-foot comprehensive advanced neurological and neurosurgical care complex adjacent to its existing CPMC Mission Bernal Campus hospital at the corner of Caesar Chavez and Valencia streets. The new care complex, planned in partnership with Sutter’s West Bay Medical Group ..read more

By Joel Berger With a high demand for medical office space and an oversupply of traditional office space, why aren’t more offices being turned into MOBs? America is oversupplied with office space, a good percentage of it functionally obsolete and destined to be torn down or converted to residential or other uses. Thanks to the pandemic, the office vacancy rate reached nearly 20% in March 2024, according to CoStar, and 44% of offices appeared to have negative equity, or property values less than their loan balances owed, according to researchers at the University of Southern California, Northwe ..read more

By HCO Staff FRISCO, Texas—Parker Performance Institute, designed by the Dallas studio of Perkins&Will and located in The Star in Frisco, is a first-of-its-kind sports and rehabilitation clinic. The students, specialized clinicians, and chiropractic professionals at Parker Performance apply neuroscience to physical rehabilitation. For a clinic that delivers high-tech, cutting-edge treatment, designers braided the electric atmosphere of a training gym and the healing clarity of a spa. Balancing the dual athletic and healing user experiences in the clinic, Parker Performance is organized int ..read more

The groundbreaking design of the new Horton Profiler® ICU XM Telescoping Door System with smoke protection provides up to a 37% greater opening width than standard smoke-rated single slide ICU doors, making this an ideal solution when maximum access is crucial. Specifically designed for the critical care environment of ICU rooms, these patented smoke-rated multi-function doors keep patients in full view when doors are closed and slide back quickly to the full-open position for unobstructed emergency access. The Horton telescoping technology introduces a wide range of architectural options for ..read more

By HCO Staff LYNCHBURG, Va.—Remedy Medical Properties and its partner Kayne Anderson Real Estate, together the nation’s largest private owners of healthcare real estate, broke ground on March 20 for the Centra Langhorne Medical Center, a new 130,000-square-foot medical office building (MOB) near Centra Lynchburg General Hospital. Slated to open in late 2025, the new five-story MOB at 2125 Langhorne Road will be 100% occupied at opening. The facility will offer a wide range of outpatient services. “Remedy is very pleased to partner with Centra on this wonderful multispecialty center that will p ..read more

By HCO Staff PEMBROKE PINES, Fla.—ANF Group, Inc. recently announced the successful completion of Providence Living at Pembroke Pines, a new assisted living facility and memory care facility in Pembroke Pines. Providence Living at Pembroke Pines is a 114,003-square-foot community that provides assisted living and memory care services and aims to redefine senior living with a focus on luxury and leisure. The project is located on 3.15 acres on the west side of Palm Avenue, just south of Pines Boulevard at the entrance to the Pembroke Pines City Center. “We are excited to bring an assisted livin ..read more

The Whitehall® BestCare® Compact Corterra® Basin is a ligature-resistant, space-saving basin. It provides a stylish handwashing solution for patient environments that are peaceful and well-balanced while still protecting patient safety. Basin is constructed of Corterra® Solid Surface Polymer Resin Oval Contoured Bowl has 6″ Depth with Dual Utility Shelves Includes compatible faucet (shown) or can be purchased without the faucet to be provided by others. Standard model comes in Blanco white; also available in other Corterra colors Unit includes ligature-resistant Grid Strainer, and 1-1/2″ Bras ..read more

By HCO Staff BREVARD COUNTY, Fla.—Construction has officially kicked-off on a $410 million Health First Cape Canaveral replacement hospital, parking garage and medical office building in Merritt Island, FL, designed by Lawrence Group architects. The new 120-bed hospital, three-deck parking structure and 92,000-square-foot medical office building will replace Health First’s Cape Canaveral Hospital in Cocoa Beach, as part of its new campus. A groundbreaking ceremony commemorating the project’s start was held on March 21. Health First announced plans to open its new hospital and medical office bu ..read more

Lawrence Group has announced the hiring of Hannah O’Keefe as its new Market Research & Data Analyst. O’Keefe will utilize her research expertise to organize and analyze project/client data amassed throughout Lawrence Group’s 40+ year history to propel the firm’s growth and aid its marketing team. “Hannah will be instrumental in transforming Lawrence Group’s raw data into useful information that will not only help us tell our own story better, but will also enable us to nuance it to become genuinely meaningful to our targeted audiences. We look forward to Hannah contributing to our future g ..read more