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Pennsylvania Hospital Opens Luxury Section

Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia is the latest healthcare facility to get a luxury inpatient area. The Pavilion at Pennsylvania Hospital opens on Tuesday offering eight tastefully decorated private rooms with gourmet meals, fine linens and concierge service. Patients will have access to DVD players, daily newspapers, an in-room safe and convertible furniture for family members. There is also a family business center with computers for visiting family members. Patients will pay an additional $400 a day. Funds raised by the program will help finance other non-income-generating hospital programs.

Gallery: The Pavilion at Pennsylvania Hospital:

Would You Pay More For A Luxury Hospital Room?
Yes	88 (54.7%)
No	26 (16.1%)
It would depend on the situation.	47 (29.2%)

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Michigan's New Luxury Hospital

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

I've covered the luxe hospital trend for the last couple years but the new Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital in Oakland County, Michigan seems particularly lavish. The $360 million new hospital which opens March 15 is designed to look more like a luxury resort and less like a medical center. The LEED-certified complex includes a grocery store with take-home meals and organic produce, a kitchen auditorium for healthy cooking demonstrations, a tea kiosk in the atrium and a retail mall area that includes a pharmacy, medical supply store, a Caribou Coffee and a boutique for mothers and newborns. Rooms have flat-screen televisions, wifi access, 24-hour room service and live feeds of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. It may sound like a great place to stay but don't plan on a long visit, the hospital staff plans to save money by encouraging shorter stays and using a one stop approach for clinical outpatient procedures to streamline the diagnostic process.

[via MLive]

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Bellevue Psych Hospital Remodeled as a Luxury Hotel?

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

It's true! Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, previously home to famous names like Normal Mailer, Edie Sedgewick, and the guy who shot John Lennon (Mark David Chapman), is getting a remodel and soon will be a luxury hotel. Built in 1931 it's pretty perfect for the remake, with its location in Manhattan along the East River, its Italian Renaissance style, and even its "H" layout with hotel-sized rooms on long corridors.

Bellevue hasn't treated psych patients since 1984 when it was transformed into a homeless shelter, and now the plans for yet another renovation are well underway. No word yet on when they hope to have the hotel finished, but hopefully there's a developer locked in by the end of the year so renovations can get started by the middle of 2009.

Knowing all the history (and insanity) that happened in those walls, will you stay there?

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Rolls Royce Auction For Cancer Cure

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Events, Charity

Richard J. Solove, real-estate developer and collector of Rolls Royce cars (among other things), is well known for his part in the foundation and generous support of the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and the race to find a cure for cancer. And at 82 years old his giving spirit is stronger than ever as he plans to auction off 13 of the 14 Rolls Royce cars in his collection, with the proceeds going to fund cancer research through the James hospital and its affiliates.

Solove says that he has intended for his Rolls Royce collection to go to the hospital for years, and thought that now was the time while he was still able to enjoy the satisfaction of the contribution. He's quoted as saying "I strive to see a cure for cancer much more than I love my cars."

The auction will take place in August of this year in Pebble Beach, CA, and is expected to raise $15 million dollars or more.

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London Hospital Gets Its Own Wine List

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wine

Hospitals are definitely getting more and more luxurious with better food and decor but a new level of luxuriousness is reached by King Edward VII's Hospital in the U.K. which now has a wine list created by Berry Bros. & Rudd. The London wine merchants has compiled a list of fine wines meant to be paired with the food served at the exclusive private hospital.

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Avalon Bay Asylum Project

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Estates

The site of the Danvers State Hospital for the mentally ill in Massachusetts is being renovated by Avalon Bay Communities, Inc. into a complex of luxury condos. Avalon is planning on putting in 497 units in total. They intend to create a "'campus-like environment' with a swimming pool, WiFi cafe and fitness center. Rents will start around $1,400 for a one-bedroom, and about half-a-million dollars for a condo." The 40 or so buildings on the 75-acre property are being demolished, though the central portion of the original 313,000-square foot Kirkbridge building, pictured, is being preserved as an historical monument.

The hospital was built in the 1870's and has been called one of the "world's scariest buildings." Some people believe that it is even haunted. The architecture is Gothic and the majority of the rooms were built in the style of a dormitory, as the facility was meant to house around 600 patients. During the 1950s, allegations of various shock therapies and lobotomies being used to control the overcrowded facility that held more than 2,000 residents were common and continued until the Hospital was completely closed in 1992. Avalon Bay bought the facility for $18 million.

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World's Most Expensive Bunny

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Auctions

Harrod's is showcasing the world's most expensive bunny. The bunny is made to look like the iconic Lindt chocolate bunnies, which are traditionally wrapped in gold foil and sold around the Easter holiday. Though the critter matches the 200-gram chocolate double in size, the Harrod's bunny is inedible, made not of chocolate but of 24-karat gold. It is inlaid with diamonds, rubies, citrine and topaz, and is valued in excess of £20,000, or approximately $35,000.

On display until April 16th, you can bid on the bunny by visiting it in the Candy Room at the Harrod's Knightsbridge store. All proceeds will be given to the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. Alternatively, you can buy yourself an edible Lindt chocolate bunny, sold in a set of three for $10.99.

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