Monday, August 29, 2011

More and More Physicians Getting Connected Through Social Media

Although physicians have not been early adopters of social media, their numbers online are increasing.  Unlike many business professionals; physicians, private practices, and hospitals have much more hesitation when using social media to interact with the online community.  The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other privacy laws restrict many healthcare providers with using these online communication tools due to the strict guidelines healthcare providers have on privacy for their patients.  There are however ways for healthcare providers to use these social media outlets to help get involved with the online social world.

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Friday, June 17, 2011

Meditrina’s New Listing!

 
Meditrina is proud to present its newest listing 648 Plank Road, Clifton Park NY! 

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

176 Leased Up, 178 Ready and Available!

Meditrina is proud to announce that the new medical office facility known as 176 Washington Avenue Extension, in Albany NY has been fully leased.  The new facility located just outside the Daughters of Sarah Senior Community will accommodate the first tenant to sign a lease, Dialysis Clinic Inc., a non-profit corporation that cares for patients suffering from end-stage renal failure.  The second tenant will be a private physician’s office.  The property is scheduled for a Late June/Early July completion date.

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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Healthcare Real Estate Developer|6 Medical Real Estate Trends for 2011

http://hcrealty.com/medicalrealestatedevelopment/?p=8
James Ellis
Real estate as an industry is slow to change; however, medical real estate is dynamic.  Momentous changes occur infrequently, but 2011 will be an exception. I believe that hospitals with a forward thinking vision must fully comprehend these trends to stay ahead of the competition.

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Thursday, December 16, 2010

First Columbia to Develop New Outpatient Medical Facility on Daughters of Sarah Senior Comm. Campus

Albany, NY (December 15, 2010) — Daughters of Sarah Senior Community and real estate development and investment company First Columbia announced plans by which First Columbia will construct and operate an outpatient medical facility on the Senior Community’s Albany campus.

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Thursday, December 09, 2010

Industry News: Under new management

WestFairOnline.com
Jim Gordon | Nov-24-10, 07:00 PM

The Medical Arts Pavilion at the campus of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Centers has been sold to a real estate investment trust that has been on a buying binge in 2010.

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Two Hospitals Team Up on Urgent Care, MOB in Malta N.Y.

Healthcare Real Estate Insights
October 2010 - Vol.8 No. 10

MALTA, N.Y. – Two of the larger hospitals in the Albany and Lake Saratoga area of upstate New York are teaming up to provide quasi-emergency care at a future outpatient center in a new medical park in Malta.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Future Of Primary Care? Some Say ‘Medical Home’

Future Of Primary Care? Some Say ‘Medical Home’
by Julie Rovner, NPR
August 26, 2010
Imagine a place where your doctor doesn’t keep you waiting, does keep you healthy, and works with a whole team of other health care professionals. Oh, and imagine that place makes the doctor’s life easier and health care cheaper.

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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Did You Know You Have the Ability to Renegotiate Your Lease?

The terms of your lease are about to expire and your landlord approaches you to resign.  You have the right to negotiate a better deal. Often, this process can be just as time consuming as negotiating the original lease. 

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Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Why You Need to Know A Little More About Space Planning

If you have started the search for office space or have worked with a broker in the past, you have likely heard the term “space planning.” What exactly does space planning mean is a question we get asked often.  Let’s go through the basics.

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Friday, June 18, 2010

Hot Topic:  When Will the Commercial Real Estate Market Come Back?

Capital has finally started to return to commercial real estate but we have some serious obstacles to overcome before the market bounces back to…dare we say, normal?

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Is Congress Hitting Us When We’re Already Down?

Real Estate investors seem to finally be getting back on their feet – just in time for Congress to hit them with increased taxes.

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Real estate Rx: Docs turn to specialists to prescribe solutions for purchase, lease of new space

Deborah Mikhitarian and Kevin Bette, CEO of First Columbia, a Latham real estate development firm, formed Meditrina in late 2008.

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Meditrina and The Orchard Tavern Host First Annual Kentucky Derby Party for The Leukemia & Lymphoma

(Albany, N.Y.) – April 15, 2010 – Diane Ethier, nominee for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) 2010 Man & Woman of the Year and The Orchard Tavern will be hosting a Kentucky Derby Party on May 1st at 4:00pm. 

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Tuesday, April 06, 2010

The Consequences of Healthcare Reform

At Meditrina, we have seen an immediate impact in business since the approval of President Obama’s Healthcare Reform Act. 

According to the 2007 U.S. Census Data, 45 million Americans were uninsured.  Based on the standard industry multiplier of 1.9 square feet per insured patients, healthcare reform will call for approximately 57 million square feet of new medical facilities. 

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