Industry News

Norton Healthcare opened the $146 million Norton Brownsboro Hospital in August of 2009. Located in Brownsboro, Ky., the patient-centered facility houses diagnostic imaging (including MRI and CT), an emergency department, surgical suites, and private inpatient rooms. The facility was designed by Karlsberger Architecture.

The University of Oklahoma Health Center is under construction in Oklahoma City. Five projects totaling $534 million are under way on the 325-acre campus. New construction includes the OU Children’s Physician Building and the Cancer Institute. Additions are being built to the existing Oklahoma Blood Institute, the Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, and the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation facilities.

Yongye International, a maker of plant and animal nutrient products, has completed an expansion of its R&D center in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China. The project included construction of six greenhouses totaling 6,000-sm and creation of an open testing field. The expansion will support development of crop nutrients based on fulvic acid.

Marshall University is planning to construct the $50 million Applied Science Center in Huntington, W.V. The 140,000-sf facility will house the College of Information Technology and Engineering, the departments of mathematics and computational sciences, a modeling and digital imaging resource facility, and engineering and bioengineering research labs. Occupancy is expected in 2012.

The United States Department of Defense (DOD) awarded Drawbase Software a next phase contract in August of 2009 to expand the use of DRAWBASE within the Military Health System. Additionally, the next version of DRAWBASE will be implemented in the 2010 release of the DMLSS (Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support) system. Enabling data from many sources to be managed in a single repository, the integrated system will improve logistics responsiveness for DOD medical facilities.