1. The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics was approved to execute a five-year capital plan that includes expanding the surgical areas.
2. The Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake, N.Y., opened a new operating room in its obstetrical wing. The $500,000 surgical suite will be used for Caesarian sections and includes an alcove where a newborn child can be stabilized.
3. Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Memorial Health Care System opened a new hybrid operating room. The 1,200-square-foot hybrid OR was built in four months as part of a $10 million operating room upgrade.
4. Baton Rouge General Medical Center is planning an expansion project totaling $40 million that includes four new operating rooms.
5. The Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center in Muskogee, Okla., opened its remodeled surgery suite. The $3.2 million renovation began in May 2010 and includes five operating rooms.
6. Valley Baptist-Brownsville (Texas) completed construction of four new surgery suites. The construction project included renovating four existing operating rooms and building four new surgery suites, a new day surgery unit, preoperative holding rooms and a post-anesthesia care unit.
7. Carney Hospital in Dorchester, Mass., part of Boston-based Caritas Christi Health Care, opened three new operating rooms. The $10.2 million surgical suite project is part of a capital investment program by parent company Steward Health Care, based in Boston.
8. Avera Marshall (Minn.) Medical Center completed its new $4 million surgical unit after more than a year of construction.
