dck Pacific Construction’s Sponsorship Of CPR Kits Helps NICU/PICU Patients At Kapi‘olani Medical Center
HONOLULU — As part of National CPR/AED (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator) Awareness Week, dck pacific construction and Layton Construction (Layton/dck JV) announced it has partnered with the American Heart Association to provide “CPR-Infant Anytime” training kits for parents of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) patients at Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women & Children.
Eighty CPR-Infant Anytime kits from AHA were made available to NICU and PICU families to help provide a life-saving skill and give parents the knowledge, sense of security and empowerment to perform infant CPR if and when their child needs it. NICU and PICU are where highly complicated and life-saving procedures are performed for newborns to teens.
“Layton/dck are happy to provide these CPR kits to Kapi‘olani Medical Center’s NICU and PICU families,” said Eric Tessem, dck pacific senior vice president and general manager. “Healthcare has always been top of mind for our company and we want to give back to an industry that provides a great amount of services to those in need of critical care.
Layton/dck are currently providing pre-construction services for a new NICU and PICU facility at Kapi‘olani. The 200,000-square-foot building will replace the old Bingham parking structure. The redevelopment of the facility will expand from 46 beds to 70 beds, but with no extra beds to the PICU. The project is scheduled to break ground in February 2014 and be completed by March 2016. This past February, dck pacific completed the expansion of Kapiʻolaniʻs 17-story, 1,000-car parking garage off Bingham Street.
In further support of Hawaii’s hospital and healthcare industry, proceeds from dck pacific’s “health and wellness” golf tournament will benefit Kapiʻolani Medical Center, Castle Medical Center, The Queen’s Medical Center and the American Heart Association. More than 200 golfers have signed up for the tournament, which will be held on Friday, June 7 at Kapolei Golf Course.
About dck pacific construction
dck pacific construction has been serving Hawaii for nearly 75 years as one of the state’s largest full-service general contractors. The company’s award-winning portfolio features many of the most prominent retail, hospitality, health care and military projects in the Pacific Rim. dck pacific construction’s parent company is dck worldwide, LLC, a global construction company specializing in developing, managing and building highly complex projects. dck worldwide provides design-build, program management, construction management and general construction services to corporations, developers and government entities. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, dck worldwide operates in North America, Guam, the Pacific Rim, the Caribbean and the Middle East.
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