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Designing children's facilities is a complex balancing act. These hospital leaders and architects produced some amazing ideas about how to redesign such a facility.

The University of Maryland Medical Center is cutting costs in a sizable way through the adoption of data-driven sustainability and energy-efficiency practices regarding its management of operating rooms and the use of medical devices.

Stop flushing pills down the toilet.

That’s the message behind a proposed rule from the Environmental Protection Agency that would ban health care facilities from disposing of hazardous pharmaceuticals by flushing them.

A roundup of industry news you may have missed this week.

A tip for time travelers. If you need a hotel, see if you can check into a hospital room at Chicago’s Presbyterian Hospital around the turn of last century.

Another acquisition hit the health care consulting market this morning, with GE announcing plans to purchase the Camden Group. 

To help the growing number of elderly struggling to find easy access to medical care due to a physician shortage in the Dallas area, one local health system has opened clinics featuring important details designed to give Medicare patients a safe, comfortable experience.