{"id":49475,"date":"2016-11-22T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo2016.hispanicprwire.com\/english-special-health-care-district-board-takes-first-step-toward-new-health-system-for-maricopa-county\/"},"modified":"2016-11-22T13:14:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T17:14:59","slug":"la-junta-del-distrito-especial-de-atencion-medica-da-el-primer-paso-hacia-un-nuevo-sistema-de-salud-para-el-condado-de-maricopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/la-junta-del-distrito-especial-de-atencion-medica-da-el-primer-paso-hacia-un-nuevo-sistema-de-salud-para-el-condado-de-maricopa\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Health Care District Board Takes First Step Toward New Health System for Maricopa County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">PHOENIX<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 21, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; The Maricopa County Special Health Care District Board of Directors today took the first step in building a new health system by unanimously approving an agreement with Vanir Construction Management, Inc., to provide pre-award programming for Integrated Program Management Construction Services.<\/p>\n<p>The 3-month contract allows Vanir to work with MIHS staff and physicians to develop and align Integrated Program Management objectives for the new facilities, including budgetary and time criteria; performance expectations; roles, relationships and responsibilities; and stakeholder engagement needs.<\/p>\n<p>Once that work is completed, the information will serve as the foundation for a final contract award to provide Integrated Program Management for Construction Services to develop MIHS&#8217;s new health care facilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to overwhelming support of the residents of <span class=\"xn-location\">Maricopa County<\/span>, we&#8217;re proceeding down parallel tracks \u2013 planning for new facilities while continuing to provide high quality care in our existing buildings,&#8221; said MIHS President and CEO <span class=\"xn-person\">Steve Purves<\/span>. &#8220;We are excited to be moving forward with a plan that will allow MIHS to sustain its historic role as <span class=\"xn-location\">Maricopa County&#8217;s<\/span> largest teaching hospital and safety net system of care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 480 in 2014 to develop, improve and expand MIHS&#8217;s healthcare facilities in <span class=\"xn-location\">Maricopa County<\/span>. MIHS includes the Maricopa Medical Center, the Arizona Burn Center, Level I Trauma Center, the Arizona Children&#8217;s Center, two behavioral health facilities and 13 Family Health Centers located across <span class=\"xn-location\">Maricopa County<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The size and scope of Maricopa Integrated Health System&#8217;s plans makes it one of the most ambitious and significant projects ever in <span class=\"xn-location\">Arizona<\/span>,&#8221; said Vanir Construction Management President <span class=\"xn-person\">Guy Mehula<\/span>. &#8220;We will put Vanir&#8217;s long history of serving healthcare clients to work on behalf of MIHS and <span class=\"xn-location\">Maricopa County<\/span> residents to fully integrate planning efforts to provide modern and safe facilities that maximize quality healthcare outcomes for all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among other priorities, the Proposition 480 project includes funds to help determine how MIHS can best continue to serve the county&#8217;s mental health needs, including construction of a new behavioral health facility. In the interim, MIHS plans to add 22 adult inpatient behavioral health beds for patients with medical conditions who have a psychiatric condition as the primary diagnosis. These beds will be located on the third floor of Maricopa Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p><b>About Maricopa Integrated Health System (MIHS)<br \/><\/b>Located in <span class=\"xn-location\">Phoenix, Ariz.<\/span>, Maricopa Integrated Health System has a proud tradition of being both the community safety net health care system, with a mission and commitment to serving the underserved and <span class=\"xn-location\">Arizona&#8217;s<\/span> only public teaching hospital. MIHS consists of Maricopa Medical, the only Level I Trauma Center in <span class=\"xn-location\">Arizona<\/span> verified by the American College of Surgeons to care for both adults and children, <span class=\"xn-location\">Arizona&#8217;s<\/span> only nationally verified Burn Center serving the entire <span class=\"xn-location\">Southwestern United States<\/span>, MIHS&#8217;s McDowell Healthcare Center, which is the largest provider of HIV primary care in <span class=\"xn-location\">Arizona<\/span>, the Refugee Women&#8217;s Health Clinic, the Arizona Children&#8217;s Center, two behavioral health centers, and 13 neighborhood Family Health Centers. To learn more about MIHS, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mihs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.mihs.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>About Vanir Construction Management, Inc.<br \/><\/b>Vanir Construction Management, Inc., is one of the nation&#8217;s leading full-service, program, project and construction management firms, delivering more than <span class=\"xn-money\">$16 billion<\/span> in construction value since 1980. Vanir has served healthcare clients throughout <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>, including medical clinics, veteran&#8217;s homes, children&#8217;s hospitals, mental hospitals, licensed acute facilities and other healthcare facilities, as well as education, justice, water\/wastewater, public buildings, transportation and energy markets.\u00a0 Vanir has been consistently ranked by <i>Engineering News-Record<\/i> as one of the &#8220;Top 50 CM Firms&#8221; for more than 20 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanir.com\/Markets\/Healthcare.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.vanir.com\/Markets\/Healthcare.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Contact:\u00a0<\/b><span class=\"xn-person\">Michael Murphy<\/span>, 602-568-0010, <a href=\"mailto:Michael.Murphy@mihs.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael.Murphy@mihs.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">PHOENIX<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 21, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; The Maricopa County Special Health Care District Board of Directors today took the first step in building a new health system by unanimously approving an agreement with Vanir Construction Management, Inc., to provide pre-award programming for Integrated Program Management Construction Services.<\/p>\n<p>The 3-month contract allows Vanir to work with MIHS staff and physicians to develop and align Integrated Program Management objectives for the new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}