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New Expansion Increases Service, Patient Comfort at
St. Francis Hospital-Mooresville
A new $42 million expansion of St. Francis Hospital-Mooresville marks the transformation of the former surgical specialty hospital into a full-service facility that offers patients maximum comfort and state-of-the-art care. The addition provides continuity to the existing hospital campus and creates a new front entrance and distinctive identity for the hospital.
BSA LifeStructures, the project's architecture and engineering firm, made patient comfort a priority by including a variety of features, most notably two rooftop gardens that are visible from patient rooms and the intensive care waiting area. The gardens are designed to complement the hospital's existing nature patios'which feature Indiana shale and running waterfalls'in creating a healing environment for patients.
BSA LifeStructures Receives Engineering Award
BSA LifeStructures recently received a first place engineering award for its work on a two-story addition at the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center. The project'located in a tight urban context'connected new engineering systems to existing infrastructure while the hospital remained in operation.
The 7th and 8th floor addition at the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center provides additional space for 48 medical and surgical patient beds per floor and includes a new inpatient pharmacy on the seventh floor that serves the entire medical center complex.
EPA Proposing to Add Hazardous Pharmaceutical Wastes to Universal Waste Rule
Below is a link to the EPA's website discussing a proposed change to the way pharmaceutical waste is handled. Andrew Dick of Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C. is currently working with the Indiana Hospital Association in order to prepare comments on the rule. If ISHE has comments, he would like to include those as well. Please contact him if you wish to receive a summary of the proposed rule, or if you wish to make comments.
Additionally, the EPA will be proposing air regulations that affect hospital incinerators. If your hospital maintains an active incinerator and is interested in this matter, please contact Andrew if you are interested in the regulations or to provide comments on that as well.
http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/wastetypes/universal/pharm.htm
You may contact Andrew at:
Andrew Dick, Esq.
Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C.
One American Square
Suite 2000, Box 82064
Indianapolis, IN 46282
317.977.1491 (Phone)
317.633.4884 (Operator)
317.633.4878 (Fax)
adick@hallrender.com
www.hallrender.com
ESCO Communications Becomes Hill-Rom Business Partner
Michael D. Gallup, Vice President, General Manager of Hill-Rom IT Solutions is pleased to announce the appointment of ESCO Communications as a Hill-Rom IT Solutions Business Partner. According to Mr. Gallup, "For over 75 years Hill-Rom has been devoted to providing quality solutions and products for the Healthcare Industry. To further deliver on our pledge to enhancing outcomes for patients and caregivers we are pleased to form this strategic partnership with ESCO Communications that will bring even more resources to our customers and improve service and delivery." According to Chip Roth, President of ESCO Communications, "We are very excited to be one of Hill-Rom's first BP's in the country. Hill-Rom provides first-class communications, safety and patient flow solutions to improve on patient care and safety. Hill-Rom is also the only Healthcare Company in the communications business and has the clinical expertise that Healthcare professionals are looking for. Hill-Rom's 75 years experience combined with our 45 years experience and multiple locations will provide better solutions and service for our mutual customers."
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