A major factor for this cooling period is the increasing demands and expectations from residents, families and regulatory bodies.

The five-story, 89,000-square-foot building, which will offer primary and advanced care, including cancer care, women’s care, additional specialties, state-of-the-art imaging and an outpatient surgery center, is being designed and constructed through a partnership with Brookhaven Capital Partners.

Sawtooth Development Group broke ground April 4 on Superior Medical, a four-story, 60,000-square-foot multitenant medical office building at Three Superior Drive in the Superior Town Center in Superior.

Moving any tenant has its pros and cons, however, moving a medical tenant can generate a totally separate set of issues.

For 24 hours, I became a wheelchair-bound individual with the following health conditions: mild dementia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and a fractured hip, and I was to become a resident at a local senior living facility – a project I had designed five years prior.

Historically, when someone referred to a “community hospital,” they were usually referring to a scaled-down general hospital in a smaller town or rural area.

In today’s ultracompetitive health care, Affordable Care Act landscape, patients expect providers to deliver care on demand and in a manner that’s more convenient for them. Whether it be calling around for same-day appointments, searching for walk-in care, finding an emergency department with a “fast track,” or requesting house calls or telehealth options, patients are behaving more like “health care shoppers.”

Advanced technologies in health care surgical suites are driving modernizations in design and subsequent changes in construction.

Improving patient experience incorporates pushing care to where the patient is located, functional design, as well as assuring convenient hours and access.

Continuum of care, retailization, flexibility: Buzzwords bringing change and redefining the hospital campus of today.