"This was a primary goal when MultiCare Health System’s Good Samaritan Hospital planned major expansions at its Puyallup facility. The $400 million project includes a new nine-story patient care tower, central utility plant and parking structure. The 300,000-square-foot patient care tower includes a main lobby, express services, inpatient nursing units, emergency department, surgery and operating rooms with a central sterile area, cardiac catheterization lab and interventional radiology, diagnostic imaging and loading dock.   LEED documentation requires close collaboration between various members of the design team, particularly architects and engineers. Being on the same software platform helps a lot..."

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"The number of women having breast cancer screenings on a regular basis has declined in recent years, experts agree.  New technology may not be enough of an incentive to get women back into the screening rooms. But the director of diagnostic imaging for Lovelace Women's Hospital figures talking about digital mammography just might help raise awareness.  "People think cancer of the breast is on a decline, but it's not," says Barbara Becker, who oversees operation of the new technology installed at the hospital a couple of months ago..."

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