title: Building boom.
abstract: After a period in which financial issues forced many hospitals to postpone needed construction projects, a building boom is under way at last. Aging facilities, many dating to the heyday of Hill-Burton funding after World War II, are ill-equipped for the enormous changes in health care delivery, from new technology to the emphasis on outpatient treatment. Innovative financing strategies are helping to feed the trend.
authors.forename: Don
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Babwin
mesh_terms: D005379:Financing, Construction / Q000379:methods*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000639:trends; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000639:trends; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D014481:United States