Kaiser Permanente is expanding its specialty care presence in Sacramento's downtown area with the recent groundbreaking of a new state-of-the-art, all-electric hospital. Located on an 18-acre site, the 1.2 million-square-foot Kaiser Permanente Railyards Campus will be home to a full-service hospital, offices for outpatient medical services, maternity care and more. As one of few all-electric hospitals in the state, the facility will feature solar energy, electric vehicle charging stations, drought-tolerant landscaping and low-emitting construction materials to maintain a low carbon footprint.
AmSurg is in talks to be acquired by Ascension Health for $3.9 billion. St. Louis-based nonprofit Catholic hospital manager Ascension has 94 wholly owned or consolidated hospitals and ownership interests in 27 additional facilities. AmSurg launched in 1992, joined forces with physician staffing company Envision in 2016, and was split from the company in 2023 following Envision’s bankruptcy proceedings. AmSurg has a network of more than 250 surgery centers across 34 states and supports nearly 2,000 physicians, according to its website.
The 420,000-square-foot North Tower officially opened its doors Sunday after nearly a decade of planning and construction, officials said. Over a four-hour period, a team of doctors, nurses and technicians transferred 130 patients, including newborns and expectant mothers, from the hospital's original Browning Building into the new state-of-the-art tower via enclosed passageways.
The Pearl promises to be a transformational development for Charlotte, drawing in medical students, creating new jobs in science and research, and fostering cutting-edge innovation and entrepreneurialism.
'Natasha,' an AI app-building service from London-based Builder.ai, claimed it had the ability to use artificial intelligence to create applications. From coming up with app designs to writing code, Natasha promised to pump out programs in record time.