The Institute for Patient-Centered Design Inc. focused its fourth annual design competition on patient room design for mental health facilities, with the winner announced at the recent Healthcare Design Expo & Conference.
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Hitting The Mark In Sustainable Design
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That’s one of the lessons gleaned from projects that healthcare organizations launched over the past decade to achieve some major sustainable design goals.
Getting To Net Zero
A hospital’s goal to achieve net-zero energy isn’t impossible, but it’s an effort that requires a combination of active and passive systems and community partnerships.
That was the message from Kim Shinn, a principal and senior sustainability wizard at TLC Engineering for Architecture, Brandon Bardowsky, director of facilities at Martin Health Systems, and Roy Gunsolus, principal at HKS Architects, during their session at the Healthcare Design Conference in Washington, D.C.
Expanding The Conversation On Population-Based Care
Among the challenges facing hospitals today is care for chronic patients—addressing how to keep them healthy and out of the hospital and serving them once they do arrive.
Emerging Outpatient Concepts You Should Know About
Reducing hospital readmissions is on the minds of designers, operators, and owners across the healthcare design spectrum—and rightfully so as penalties for these continue to take effect.
During a session at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference in Washington, D.C., this week, speaker Natalie Abell, a senior associate, applied solutions group, at the ECRI Institute, identified two emerging specialty outpatient concepts and how they could help address this issue.
3 Lessons In Designing For Autism
“Can the physical environment influence behavior in a positive way?” That was the question posed to attendees at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference in the session, “Healthy Environments for Autism.”
Specifically, speakers Cathy Lord, a clinical psychologist and director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain, and Jacques Black, president, DaSilva Architects, were talking about autism and the growing prevalence of the disorder over the last 20 years as awareness and diagnosis of the disease has grown.
Modernizing Sibley Memorial Hospital
Sibley Memorial Hospital, a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine, began master planning for a new pavilion and patient tower in 2004. The strategy focused on improving its aging infrastructure, updating its 60-year-old hospital with new rooms settings, and addressing projected increased demand for emergency services, imaging, and diagnostic services.
“Hospitals are losing inpatient volume” says Jerry Price, senior vice president of construction at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
Short-Stay Recovery: Designing A New Experience At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
When Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) set out to create a new freestanding outpatient surgery center in Manhattan, it got the opportunity to address a capacity issue and move outpatient operative cases off its main campus. The operator also got the chance to design the short-stay recovery unit from the ground up.
Breaking Down Silos In Academic Cancer Research
Hospitals aren’t the only ones adapting their environments to support a more team-based approach to cancer care. “Probably every academic institution is looking at their cancer service line in the clinical world as well as the research,” says Jon Crane, senior vice president, director, translational health sciences at HDR (Atlanta).
Lab Partners: Mayo Clinic And Delos Team Up On Well Living Lab
Ninety percent—that’s the amount of time Americans spend indoors, from homes to offices to retail spaces and healthcare facilities, according to Mayo Clinic.
Faces Of The Future Of Healthcare Design
One thing is certain: Today’s architecture and design students are inspired and ready to bring new ideas and changes to the industry. Healthcare Design spoke with students at leading universities to find out what put them on their career path and what challenges and solutions they’ve already got up their sleeves. Here, we share profiles of these student.
Coming Together To Improve Cancer Care
Cancer treatment at Cleveland Clinic’s main campus can take patients on a fragmented journey—from its main four-story Taussig Cancer Institute, to the Gamma Knife Center three blocks away, to radiation oncology in yet another building, and then across campus for surgery services. The splintered set-up also spreads out clinicians, care teams, and support services, making it difficult to deliver a team-based approach.
