Legal Affairs: HIPAA and the importance of adopting and enforcing ePHI protections, see page 3
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November 2015 • Volume 12, Issue 7 • $3.50
Special Report: Growth Expansion Planning
Growing taller
INSIDE
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BCM receives $1.5
million from The Paul G.
Allen Ebola Program for
enhanced smart pod
see page 4
INDEX
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Financial Perspectives.......2
Legal Affairs......................3
Technology......................4
Integrative Medicine.........6
Physicians’ Forum.............7
Hospital Headlines.........12
THA...............................13
BY MICHAEL SHIRLEY, AIA, LEED AP,
Senior Principal, FKP Architects
Gowned surgeons, nurses and technicians
surround the operating table. As the camera
pans out, a mock cardiac surgery begins,
revealing a child-size mannequin supine on
a wooden platform amid an entire theater
of plywood and foam core, complete with
full-scale mock-ups of apparatus, medical
equipment, and supplies.
Information
garnered from the simulations guides the
architects partnering with the hospital in
their design of room sizes and arrangements
as well as the layout of technologies and
workflows in the pediatric critical care
center of the future.
Its growing global reach and increasing
patient demand have helped Texas
Children’s Hospital defy downward local
economic pressures and continue the
implementation of its long-term facilities
master plan. The $506 million, 19-story
patient tower addition is the keystone of
a $575 million capital investment at the
hospital’s main campus in the Texas Medical
Center. The new tower, slated to open in
2018, will be built atop an existing six-story
base that it will share with Texas Children’s
Pavilion for Women, which opened in 2011.
Its 640,000 square feet will house 130 beds
for pediatric and cardiovascular intensive
care and new operating rooms fitted out
with the latest technology. It will also
become the new home of Texas Children’s
Heart Center, including an outpatient
Please see TALLER page 15
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Breaking Ground: Memorial Hermann announces plans for Convenient
Care Center in The Heights
Heartfulness meditation:
spirituality as a tool for
success
see page 6
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Memorial Hermann has announced
plans to build its eighth convenient care
center and first inside the 610 loop. The
44,000-square-foot Memorial Hermann
Central Convenient Care Center in The
Heights at I-10 and Studemont is expected
to be completed in summer 2017 and will
join Memorial Hermann Greater Heights
Hospital in serving the area.
The two-story Convenient Care Center
will provide one-stop, highly-coordinated
access to adult and pediatric primary care,
specialty physicians, sports medicine and
rehabilitation, outpatient imaging and lab
services, and a 24-hour emergency room.
“Our network of Convenient Care Centers
has provided safe, high-quality medical care
that is easily accessible in the communities
we serve,” said Jim Brown, Sr. Vice
President and CEO of ambulatory services
at Memorial Hermann. “We want to offer
expert medical care at the appropriate levels
throughout the greater Houston area. We
look forward to bringing this model of care
to the heart of our city.”
Memorial Hermann Convenient Care
Centers are designed to take the stress out of
scheduling appointments for routine health
needs by offering families options such as
walk-in access and extended evening and
weekend hours with access to an emergency
room if needed.
“Residents of the Greater Heights, downtown
Houston, and the surrounding area will
have access to comprehensive round-theclock medical care at our new Convenient
Care Center,” said Susan Jadlowski, Sr. Vice
President and CEO at Memorial Hermann
Greater Heights. “This new facility will
Please see BREAKING GROUND page 14
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