Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to J Vilums.
In gearing up for its 100th anniversary in 1992, Huntington Memorial Hospital, a 606-bed medical center in Pasadena, CA, embarked on a $40 million facility replacement program. Its goal? To ensure the hospital's competitive edge well into its second century. The key players? Hospital trustees.
St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Topeka, used careful planning, good communication, and the fast-track design and construction method in a $20-million project to nearly double the facility's size. Although keeping the hospital going while building this addition involved inconvenient trade-offs, the facility's administration "would do it again."