Opened in July 2020, the new ED brings more bed capacity, specialized patient areas, and improved efficiencies to the hospital campus in Marietta, Ga.
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IIDA Healthcare Design Awards: Winning Transformation
The renovation of a historic German chateau into a modern private clinic for mental health services took tops honors in IIDA’s 2020 Healthcare Design Awards.
Healthcare Environment Awards: Winning Combination
The 2020 Healthcare Environment Awards, presented by The Center for Health Design in conjunction with Healthcare Design, spotlight new design approaches to promote healing and wellness.
Strategies For Accommodating Higher Patient Volumes
Flexible solutions such as a mass casualty unit or flexible inpatient room design can help address the potential influx of emergent and acute medical cases.
HCD Virtual: 3 Changes To Watch In Healthcare Design
Speakers at HCD Virtual discussed the shifts they’re seeing in healthcare delivery and how they’re impacting design and planning going forward.
HCD Virtual: Using POEs To Challenge The Status Quo
Speakers at HCD Virtual dove into the POE process including how to make the case to clients and best practices that can deliver the best, most unbiased results.
HCD Virtual: Using Design To Support Culturally Inclusive Care
HCD Virtual included a case study on Siloam Health’s newest clinic to illustrate how facilities can respond to unique community needs and patient populations through their designs.
HCD Virtual: Searching For A Deeper Understanding Of Clinic Design
At HCD Virtual, speakers from UNC Health and LS3P shared a study on clinic configuration to demonstrate the benefits of calculating space syntax connectivity and integration values to inform design decisions and improve staff communication.
HCD Virtual Keynote: Answering A Call to Action
A panel of industry experts during the opening keynote at HCD Virtual shared lessons learned addressing COVID-19 and the innovation and new ideas that should shape the industry moving forward.
HCD Virtual Session Q+A: Design of Staff Restorative Environments
HCD Virtual in November will offer a variety of educational sessions delivered over four days. Here, Erin Clark from ClarkRN previews the session, including ways to design and foster conditions to support nurse satisfaction and improved patient outcomes.
HCD Virtual Session Q+A: The Importance of Culturally Inclusive Care
HCD Virtual in November will offer a variety of educational sessions delivered over four days. Here, Dr. Morgan Wills from Siloam Health previews the session, including how culturally inclusive design solutions can be applied more broadly to healthcare projects.
Conversion Story: Reconfiguring A Decommissioned Facility Into An Alternate Care Site
Breaking down communication barriers and decision-making silos was essential to meeting the project’s four-week timeline.
