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Dossier on Rod Booze

 

Fort Worth Business Press - April 11-17, 2005

 

Texas Designers See Future in Alaska

Alaska Business Monthly - July 2005

 

Ascension Group Architects, LLP, based in Arlington, Texas, is overseeing the approximately $100 construction of Mat-Su Regional Medical Center near Palmer.

 

Local architect specializes in health care facilities

 

Ft. Worth Business Press - July 25, 2005

 

Two Minutes with Rod Booze

Dallas Business Journal - June 3-9, 2005

 

Booze is a managing partner of Ascension Group Architects in Arlington. Ascension is the architectural firm responsible for designing the $100 million, 300,000-square-foot Presbyterian Hospital in Denton.

 

70-Bed Regional Medical Center Under Way in Alaska

Building Design and Construction - August 1, 2005

Principal Design

Dallas Business Journal - November 18, 2005

 

Assuring that every project is overseen by a principal of this health care architectural design firm spurred the company's quick growth. Ascension Group's three principals have clear memories of what it's like to be an employee. It wasn't long ago that Rod Booze, David Tooley and Erick Westerholm themselves worked for another local architectural firm, designing hospitals and other medical use facilities for the health care industry.

 

Bastrop hospital names new CEO, prepares to open

Austin Business Journal - October 28, 2005

 

An East Texas hospital administrator has been hired to open Bastrop's first hospital in more than two decades. Stacy Holland, former CEO at 36-bed East Texas Medical Center in Clarksville, will be the new CEO and administrator at Lakeside Hospital at Bastrop, an $11 million, 28,500-square-foot acute-care hospital at State Highway 71 and State Highway 95. Ascension Group Architects LLP of Arlington designed the hospital and is overseeing construction.

 

Arlington-based architects announce hospital project under way in Pasadena

 

North Texas e-News - Jan 29, 2006 Arlington, Texas -- Arlington-based Ascension Group Architects is handling the design of the $52 million Patients Medical Center in Pasadena, which broke ground recently.

 

Ascension finishes work on hospital

Star Telegram - January 23, 2006

 

Ascension Group Architects has completed work on Lakeside Hospital, an $11 million, 28,500-square foot acute care hospital near Texas 71 and Texas 75 in Bastrop.

 

Ascension hired on Pasadena project

Dallas Business Journal - February 10, 2006

 

Ascension Group Architects is overseeing the construction of the $52 million Patients Medical Center in Pasadena, near Houston.

 

Physician-owned Hospital to add to Pasadena medical mix

Houston Business Journal - Feb. 17-23, 2006

N. Texas hospital operator opens hospital in Bastrop

Dallas Business Journal - March 9, 2006

 

Rockwall Hospitals Inc.'s Lakeside Hospital at Bastrop is fully open. The hospital was designed to accommodate expansion of the surgical suite, medical surgical wing and diagnostic department, says Erick Westerholm, principal at Arlington-based Ascension Group Architects L.L.P., which oversaw its construction.

 

Ascension overseeing expansion's design

Star Telegram - April 3, 2006

 

ARLINGTON -- Ascension Group Architects is overseeing the design of Abilene Regional Medical Center's $26 million expansion and renovation in Taylor County.

 

Mesquite to get 3rd hospital by 2008

The Dallas Morning News - April 15, 2006 Mesquite is getting its third general hospital. Rockwall Hospitals Inc. of Richardson outlined plans this week for a 60-bed acute-care hospital it will build and operate with a group of physician investors.

Mark Kennedy, president and chief executive of the privately held company, said he expects to begin construction on the $54 million hospital in early 2007 and open it in mid-2008.

Texas Regional Medical Center will have 60 private patient rooms, six operating rooms, eight labor-and-delivery suites, an emergency department and a diagnostic imaging center.

 

Ascension Group Architects of Arlington is designing the project.

 

Ascension Designs Abilene Hospital

Texas Construction - May, 2006

 

Arlington-based Ascension Group Architects, LLP is overseeing the design of Abilene Regional Medical Center?s $26 million expansion and renovation project, which recently broke ground. Building the Alaskan frontier The University of Texas at Arlington Alumni Magazine - Summer 2006 Alumnus Rod Booze just loves the idea of making a buck with a pencil. But the managing principal of Arlington's Ascension Group Architects is moved by more than the bottom line - even when his job takes him to remote parts of the globe.

 

Surgery center planned for Granbury

North Texas e-News - August 12, 2006

GRANBURY, Texas---Ground will be broken within weeks on Granbury Surgical Plaza, a $4.5 million ambulatory surgery center in Granbury that?s slated to open some time in March 2007.

 

Arlington, Texas-based Ascension Group Architects is overseeing the design.

 

Arlington architecture firm wins Louisiana project

Dallas Business Journal - August 25, 2006

 

Arlington-based Ascension Group Architects is overseeing design work on a $10 million long-term acute care hospital in Bossier City, La.

 

Architect firm chosen for clinic expansion

The Hamilton Herald News - October 5, 2006

 

The Hamilton County Hospital District Board of Directors selected Ascension Group Architects of Arlington for the proposed Rural Health Clinic expansion and new Wellness Center during their regular meeting Friday afternoon.

 

ASCENSION GROUP ARCHITECTS TO DESIGN NEW HOSPITAL

RE Business Online - October 6, 2006

 

KERMIT, TEXAS - Arlington, Texas-based Ascension Group Architects has been awarded a contract to design a replacement for Winkler County Memorial Hospital in Kermit.

 

Architecture firm nears completion on Pasadena hospital

Houston Business Journal - December 1, 2006

 

Ascension Group Architects is almost finished work on Patients Medical Center in Pasadena, a $52 million general hospital scheduled to open in 2007.

 

Construction Zone

Health Facilities Management Magazine - January, 2007

 

Ground was broken on the 40,000-square-foot, 50-bed Promise Specialty Hospital of Bossier City, La. The $10 million, long-term acute care hospital will open in 2007. The hospital is owned and will be managed by Promise Healthcare Inc, Boca Raton, Fla. Ascension Group Architects LLP, Arlington, Texas, is overseeing design work.

 

ASCENSION GROUP ARCHITECTS DESIGNS TWO MEDICAL PROJECTS

RE Business Online - February 6, 2007

TUCSON, ARIZ. - Arlington, Texas-based Ascension Group Architects has designed two medical projects in Tucson. The $10.4 million Gateway Medical Office Building, located on the corner of Orange Grove Road and La Cholla Boulevard, will complete the master development plan for Northwest Medical Center.