Becker's Healthcare December 23, 2024
Annette Walker, president of City of Hope Orange County (Calif.), is overseeing the development of Orange County’s only cancer specialty hospital, slated to open in 2025.
Ms. Walker has applied the “green light, yellow light, red light” management method, which is used to track staff performance, to the $1.5 billion cancer campus project in Irvine, Calif.
City of Hope Orange County’s first clinical location, City of Hope Newport Beach, opened in 2020, followed by the City of Hope Orange County Lennar Foundation Cancer Center in 2022. Construction is underway on the 73-bed cancer specialty hospital.
Tracking progress with precision
For Ms. Walker, timeline and budget were the most critical metrics in managing the project. She introduced the “light”-based methodology...