On Feb. 9, 1971, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake shook Southern California’s San Fernando Valley, killing 65 people and seriously injuring 2,000. Because most of the deaths occurred in a veterans’ hospital ...

Assembly member Dario Frommer (D-Los Feliz) has introduced a bill (AB 1154) that would exempt the state health planning office staff positions from the state hiring freeze and any further cutbacks ...

Mitrex is a specialist in high-performance building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems that combine solar generation and façade aesthetics. For a major hospital retrofit in Alberta, Canada, Mitrex ...

PROVIDENCE, RI--(Marketwired - July 19, 2016) - Energy Source, a division of Revolution Lighting Technologies, today announced that it has recently completed its latest LED retrofit project for ...

Prompted by a seismic safety law passed after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, California has embarked on a frenzy of hospital building and reconstruction that will cost billions of dollars and will ...

The historic Los Angeles General Hospital, left, was replaced by a new facility, right, in 2008. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) After nearly a century of earthquake vulnerability, the process of ...

Los Angeles-based Temple Community Hospital has closed its doors after more than 70 years due to low revenue and increasing costs, including the pending $50 million expense of retrofitting the ...

This month’s Facility File focuses on retrofitting a hospital’s patient floor with the addition of one fan-powered HEPA filter unit per patient room on a 30-patient room floor. The Facility File will ...

Residents and other stakeholders within the Diamond/Grove community were on Wednesday invited to a public consultation for the retrofitting of the Diamond Diagnostic Centre to that of a SMART hospital ...

Mission Hospital Laguna Beach soon will be able to better withstand shaking from an earthquake. The hospital at 31872 S. Coast Hwy., part of the St. Joseph Health system, is embarking on a $15-million ...

"Born in an old mansion on a hill in the year of 1889, the Hahnemann Hospital, long ago aptly renamed the Highland, was the child of a rebellion." So stated Arch Merrill, longtime literary chronicler ...