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The hospital went without power for nearly two hours. When a power outage struck Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, recently, the hospital’s backup generator also failed, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. This outage forced ambulance diversions and patient transfers, including five infants and six laboring mothers. The hospital went without power for nearly two…

The 300,000-square-foot facility in Jamestown will provide 140 beds in a modern, trauma-informed care environment. Gov. Kelly Armstrong, along with state agency officials and local leaders, led a groundbreaking ceremony for the new North Dakota State Hospital. The 300,000-square-foot facility in Jamestown will provide 140 beds in a modern, trauma-informed care environment, replacing the existing…

The most effective solutions to workplace violence are sophisticated emergency response planning and master level training for all employees. The numbers surrounding violence in healthcare facilities are staggering. Healthcare workers are five times more likely to experience workplace violence than other occupations, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nearly 82 percent of nurses…

Chicago has broken ground on the new Concourse D at O’Hare International Airport with AECOM Hunt Clayco Bowa serving as the construction manager at-risk for the $1.3-billion project that includes $300 million in infrastructure work. The project, one part of ORDNext, a $8.5-billion O’Hare 21 Terminal Area expansion and modernization project launched in 2018, is…

Rising costs—now estimated at topping $500 million—and local opposition to the planned design have led the Michigan Dept. of Transportation to pause a project to convert Detroit’s downtown I-375 freeway into a grade-level boulevard. Last year, MDOT selected Shelby Township, Mich.-based Dan’s Excavating, Inc., for the progressive design-build contract, with pre-construction work tentatively scheduled to…