The Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo, now in its 23rd year, is the original event that brings together the entire team who designs, plans, constructs and manages healthcare facilities. HFSE focuses on how the physical space directly impacts the staff, patients & their families and the delivery of healthcare. Ideas, practices, products and solutions will be exchanged, explored and discovered at HFSE that improve current healthcare facilities and plan the facilities of tomorrow.

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DALLAS -- The UT System Board of Regents today gave its approval to plans for a new state-of-the-art University Hospital at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. The project now will go to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for its review and final approval.

As planned, the new hospital will replace University Hospital - St. Paul, which opened in 1963 and has become too costly to maintain and renovate as an academic medical center in the years ahead, according to Dr. Daniel K. Podolsky, president of UT Southwestern.

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With support from surrounding counties’ EMS teams, patients will transfer to the new replacement hospital every three minutes

After more than a year of training, planning and preparation, the staff of Saint Joseph – London is preparing for the patient transfer to the brand new hospital. At 5:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 19, staff members will begin moving patients one-by-one from the existing downtown hospital to the new replacement facility located off I-75 at Exit 38. Both hospitals will remain operational during the entire move to provide seamless and uninterrupted patient care.

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