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An “Ahhh”-Inspiring Dental Clinic

Studio Dental Inc. is making it a lot harder for patients to put off their biannual cleanings. Founders Dr. Sara Creighton and CEO Lowell Caulder have created the 26-foot-long Studio Dental Mobile Unit to deliver dental services to offices around San Francisco.

The goal is to provide a convenient experience that’s a balance of high-tech and serene office space—all within a 230-square-foot interior.

In Her Own Words: The HCD 10’s Jennie Evans

Wanderlust has led Jennie Evans to many different parts of the world. At a young age, she would look through travel books and pick out spots she wanted to visit. “I was always thinking beyond my current geography,” she says.

She’s traveled to several continents, including Asia, South America, and Europe, and a few years ago fulfilled a life-long dream backpacking along the Salkantay Trail to the Incas in Peru.

3 Reasons To Embark On A Master Plan

One thing is for certain when it comes to master planning in healthcare today: The process is a lot different than it was 10, even 5, years ago. While in the past, hospitals looked mainly at where to build, these days, the conversation is about that and so much more.

“Master planning is all about gathering data,” says Craig Piper, senior principal/operations leader, SMRT (Portland, Maine).

In His Own Words: The HCD 10’s Paul Strohm

Growing up in southern Indiana on a parcel of his grandfather’s farm provided the perfect setting for a young Paul Strohm to discover his love for creating things.

“I was a kid who ran around the farm a lot and I built things—forts, tree houses, structures,” says Strohm, now a senior vice president and director of healthcare at HOK (St. Louis) and the HCD 10 Architect for his work in 2014.

Finding The Way With Master Planning

On paper, Boston City Hospital and Boston University Medical Center Hospital came together in 1996 to form Boston Medical Center (BMC). But the acute care hospital and the academic teaching hospital never physically consolidated, meaning they both continued to operate programs on the same campus for several years, each with approximately 250 beds and overlapping services.

In His Own Words: The HCD 10’s David Grandy

David Grandy’s career path has many twists and turns—a result, he said, of knowing how to recognize a great opportunity and then capitalizing on it.

For instance, after deciding to go to medical school, he took a year off to intern with a healthcare system. There, he noticed a lack of young leaders at the table and decided that rather than pursue a medical career and come up through the clinical side to get to the leadership table, he wanted to go there first.

Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital: Project Breakdown

Project Summary  

Completion date: November 2014

Owner: Queensland Government

Total building area:  802,018 sq. ft.

Total construction cost: hospital—$459 million ($600 million AUD); total project cost—$1.2 billion ($1.5 billion AUD)

Cost/sq. ft.: hospital—$572 per sq. ft. ($748 AUD)

Architecture: Conrad Gargett Lyons

Interior design: Conrad Gargett Lyons

Landscape: Conrad Gargett

Contracting: Queensland Health

Engineering: AECOM

Construction: Lendlease

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