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example, announced plans to invest more than $1 means careful review of staging and logistics, work
billion in Western Pennsylvania and is well on its windows, and noise and vibration limits.”
way to realizing this figure. The Network has already Therese Shearer, PE, concurs, adding, “For a new
invested over $200 million in Oncology alone. facility, access to natural light, sound-absorbing
Adrienne Sraver, CCM, Project Manager for the Hill materials, and privacy considerations, in addition
team managing a renovation and upgrade at The to infection control, information technology, and air
Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, says quality, must be integrated into the facility. If you
of the sector’s growth, “On the project level, we’re add them on after the fact, you’re going to delay the
seeing things like increased patient focus and more work and spike costs. As healthcare IT, including
integrated use of IT. For us, it means emphasizing virtual healthcare, becomes more intricate, this is
patient needs. If we are monitoring work in an especially true. We can’t have any glitches when
occupied facility, we make sure any stressors are a healthcare facility starts up; it has to operate at
kept away from the patients and that the experience 100% from day one.”
is kept as calm and supportive as possible. This

For a $10 million renovation and upgrade at the Wexner Medical Center, Hill is providing staff augmentation services. A
multidisciplinary academic medical center, the Wexner Medical Center is consistently ranked by US News & World Report in
numerous categories and, in 2018, was named the best hospital in central Ohio.

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