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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Established in 1889, The Christ Hospital faced growing service needs on an aging campus in Cincinnati’s Mount Auburn neighborhood. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM; Chicago) was hired to design a 1.4 million-square-foot master plan for the campus, prioritizing areas for development based on site-wide impact and potential to improve patient, physician, and staff experience.
In this series, Healthcare Design asks leading healthcare design professionals, firms, and owners to tell us what’s got their attention and share some ideas on the subject.
Deb Sheehan is executive director, client strategies leader, at CannonDesign (Chicago). Here, she shares her thoughts on wearable technology, the OR of the future, and the importance of well-designed staff spaces.
1. Renewed focus on employee spaces
Seeking to improve the health of their community while creating a destination campus for wellness and inclusion, three organizations—Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids, and Carol Van Andel Healthy Living Center—have come together as part of the Mary Free Bed YMCA, in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The 117,000-square-foot Y opened in December 2015 on a 36-acre campus and is designed to be accessible, providing health and wellness activities and programs for disabled and able-bodied individuals.
St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto wanted kids walking into its CIBC Just For Kids Clinic to feel at ease inside the hospital clinic environment. The goal was to create a more playful, child-friendly environment by combining art and architecture to encourage a sense of discovery and engagement, making the clinic feel more like a playground than a waiting room.
After several years of planning and gathering feedback from the community, Baptist Health South Florida (BHSF) is building its first outpatient facility in Miami Beach, Fla.
When leaders of Humber River Hospital set out to build a replacement hospital in Toronto, they didn’t just want to incorporate the latest technologies, such as a real-time location system (RTLS), integrated bedside terminals, or automated guided vehicles (AGVs), into the 1.8 million-square-foot facility.
Seeking to expand into a new market, Artemed Group, a hospital and senior living facility operator based in Germany, is working with Gresham, Smith and Partners (Nashville, Tenn.) to design its first hospital in China. Located in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, Artemed aims for the 200-bed hospital to serve as a model that can be replicated across China for providing high-quality care at a reasonable cost.
