title: St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Topeka, KS. A fast-track project: keeping going while growing.
abstract: St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Topeka, used careful planning, good communication, and the fast-track design and construction method in a $20-million project to nearly double the facility's size. Although keeping the hospital going while building this addition involved inconvenient trade-offs, the facility's administration "would do it again."
mesh_terms: D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006276:Health Facility Size; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006752:Hospital Planning; D007615:Kansas