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Volume 13 • Issue 12• $5.00 June 2017
THE REGION’S MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS

CannabisNewsFlorida.com Healthcare Real Estate, Construction

'Speed to Market' New Trend

in Healthcare Construction

BY LOIS THOMSON

"Speed to Market" is a constant in healthcare con-
struction. Frank Vilar, President of OHL Arellano, a
Florida healthcare leader, does not see this trend going
away soon: "Our clients have an immediate demand
for space. Owners are in a hurry to get their projects Ed Martinez
completed to get their patients in." Establishing
healthcare brands in a particular territory is very com- Miami Children’s
petitive, and clients rely on OHL-Arellano for "Speed
Keith Costello
to Market."
Arellano Construction Co., a local healthcare con- Health System
First GREEN struction leader, was founded in 1974, and entered and Tyto Care
into an alliance with OHL – a leading, global health-
care firm – in 2008. Vilar has been associated with the Frank Vilar
Bank: company for more than 30 years, is quite familiar with
the industry, and does not believe the speed-to-market concept is going to slow Expand
A Global down. Telehealth
"I see a substantial increase in the planning and construction of senior living facil-
Tastemaker for ities, ambulatory centers and medical office building projects. Studies show that Services
through 2029, 8,000 people daily, will turn 65 in the United States. This statistic,
coupled with advanced medicine prolonging life, creates no doubt that senior living
Environmental Continued on page 20
BY DANIEL CASCIATO
and Social
Hurricane Preparedness Last month, Miami Children’s Health
Change System (MCHS), parent organization of
Miami-based Nicklaus Children’s Hos -
Be Prepared: pital, announced a collaboration with
BY DANIEL CASCIATO Tyto Care, a telehealth company with
Lessons Learned From technology for conducting remote diag-
One of the first banks in the country nostic telehealth evaluations and visits.
with an environmental and social mis- The implementation expands the cur-
sion, First GREEN Bank, a local bank Hurricane Andrew rent offerings of the hospital’s MCH
with a global mission, was founded in Anywhere telehealth services, broadens
2009 by a team of experienced and suc- It’s been 25 years since Hurricane Andrew’s 165-mph the scope of care that can be delivered
cessful local bankers after being given winds pummeled and broke apart Home stead Hospital, via telehealth to homes, schools and
the last bank charter in the state of just 30 miles south of Miami. global locations where patients are locat-
Florida. With approximately 100 The night of terror, the grueling aftermath and the ed, and increases the speed to provide
employees, the financial institution cur- long road to rebuilding as the hospital’s president gave physicians diagnostic information.
rently has over $600 million in assets me first-hand experience in preparing for the next natu- The Tyto Care Home Monitoring Kit is
and has lent more than $500 million to ral disaster. The onset of this year’s hurricane season is a handheld remote examination device
local businesses and individuals in the sufficient reason that all medical centers in Florida and telehealth platform that enables any-
communities it serves. As part of its should plan for such an emergency. one to capture ear, throat, lung, skin,
ongoing plans for expansion, the bank If that isn’t enough of an incentive, a new federal rule heart, and temperature exam data and
recently purchased property in Fort will go into effect in November that requires hospitals share it with his or her physician to bet-
Lauderdale where it is planning to open participating in Medicare and Medicaid to have an emer- ter inform a remote diagnosis. Tyto
its new South Florida headquarters in gency preparedness plan in place – or else their certifi- exams can be performed in real-time as
2018. cation will be in jeopardy. And yet on a personal level, BY WAYNE BRACKIN part of a live video telehealth visit or the
“Our earnings increased by over 40% nothing could have prepared Homestead Hospital’s med- data can be forwarded to a physician in
in the last year, which is really extraordi- ical staff and administrators in 1992 for what they would experience with Hurricane advance of a telehealth session.
nary if you look at the organic growth of Andrew. The implementation at MCHS will
banks,” says Keith Costello, President Most Homestead Hospital employees owned homes in the booming South Dade bed- enable doctors within the health system to
and CEO of First GREEN Bank. “We're room community served by the 100-bed hospital. It was three-quarters full that day, but improve and extend patient monitoring
in a great position to be able to continue through easily conductible check-ups
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