Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, in collaboration with Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA), has unveiled plans to build a new outpatient surgery facility at Wake Forest Baptist Health – Medical Plaza Clemmons (Clemmons, N.C.). The single-story, 12,000-square-foot...
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FACE TIME: Heather Nye
Heather Nye says it’s her love of problem solving that drew her to a career in interior design and has kept her curious and motivated all of these years. “Every phase of design brings on new challenges,” she says. For the last decade, she’s been utilizing her skills...
NYC Health + Hospitals Breaks Ground On Ambulatory Care Center
NYC Health + Hospitals has started construction on a new 18,000-square-foot ambulatory care facility in New York's Staten Island borough. The $28 million construction project is expected to open in fall 2017 and will provide primary, ambulatory, and urgent care...
Erlanger Health Wraps Up $50M Expansion Project
Erlanger Health System (Chattanooga, Tenn.), a non-profit, academic medical center affiliated with the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, has completed a surgical center expansion and new patient tower construction at Erlanger East Hospital in Chattanooga,...
Autism Clinic For Children Opens In Atlanta
Early Autism Project (Sumter, S.C.) opened a state-of-the-art clinic in Atlanta. The clinic provides research-based behavioral treatment for autism spectrum and related disorders and houses a large therapeutic play area, with a trampoline, slide and other items used...
2016 Nightingale Awards Winners Honored At HCD Expo
The annual Nightingale Awards honored 25 products in 13 categories for their contribution to healing environments. The annual awards program, co-presented at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference by Healthcare Design and Contract magazines in partnership with...
SCL Health Prepares To Open Community Hospital In Colorado
SCL Health is planning to host a ribbon-cutting ceremony this week to mark the opening of SCL Health Community Hospital – Northglenn, in Northglenn, Colo. The new 60,000-square-foot hospital features a state-of-the-art emergency department with surgical capabilities,...
Exer Adds Sixth Urgent Care Location In Southern California
Urgent care clinic operator Exer has partnered with Providence Health & Services, a Catholic, not-for-profit healthcare system, to open a facility in Redondo Beach, Calif. The urgent care houses an on-site laboratory, diagnostic and imaging equipment, and...
HCD Expo Session: 6 Considerations For Waiting Room Design
Waiting rooms play a big role in a facility’s first impression with patients and family members. That environment can also be a source of comfort and stress relief or a place where anxiety and agitation rise.
HCD Expo Keynote: Changemakers Find Magic In The Intersection Of Research, Design, Education
For the first time in its history, The Center for Health Design presented its Changemaker award to two recipients: D. Kirk Hamilton and Jaynelle Stichler.
Searching For The Perfect Nursing Station Design
Looking to add to the body of research on nursing station design and the effects of different models on nurse communication, care processes, and patient outcomes, researchers and staff at the University of Kentucky teamed up with University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, Ky.
HCD Expo Tour: Houston Methodist Hospital Outpatient Center
The Houston Methodist Hospital's $249 million outpatient center opened in 2010 on a one-and-a-half city block city in the Texas Medical Center in Houston.














