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University of California, San Francisco Medical Center at Mission Bay's Benioff Children’s Hospital lobby | Photo by Rien van Rijthoven

UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay’s exterior gardens. | Photo by Rien van Rijthoven

UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay’s patient room. | Photo by Rien van Rijthoven

UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay’s adult lobby. | Photos by Rien van Rijthoven

UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay’s imaging area. | Photos by Rien van Rijthoven

The renovation and addition to the Memorial Hospital at Gulfport's patient tower included a watertight seal for the building’s leaking exterior skin. | Photo courtesy of Roy Anderson Corp.

Memorial Hospital at Gulfport's charting stations that are strategically placed outside of each patient room with a window view for observation. | Photos courtesy of Roy Anderson Corp.

Memorial Hospital at Gulfport's renovation included redesigned hallways. | Photos courtesy of Roy Anderson Corp.

Memorial Hospital at Gulfport's new NICU patient rooms incorporate advanced technology. | Photos courtesy of Roy Anderson Corp.

Memorial Hospital at Gulfport's new patient room layout approximately 50 percent larger than the previous one. | Photos courtesy of Roy Anderson Corp.

Equipment being installed in a new infrastructure plant in unused space above an active loading dock at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center. | Photos by ©Revette Studio

St. Joseph's new infrastructure included a 4.6-megawatt natural gas turbine electric generator. | Photos by ©Revette Studio

St. Joe's new infrastucture includes an 800-kilowatt blackstart generator that jumpstarts the gas turbine in case of power outage. | Photos by ©Revette Studio

St. Joe's new infrastucture included a 45,000-pph heat recovery steam generator that converts waste heat (from turbine) into steam for the hospital. | Photos by ©Revette Studio

St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center’s infrastructure upgrade includes 13.2-kilovolt switchgear; | Photos by ©Revette Studio