This spring the White House and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services introduced the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit as part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, which is focused on expanding access to science-based information on climate change and the built environment.
After operating for more than 10 years, the Child Life Zone at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston was starting to show some wear and tear. “With thousands of patients and families using the space over the years, it was well loved,” says Mary E. Tietjens, child life manager at Texas Children’s Hospital.
The dated layout was also inefficient, with the 2,557-square-foot room divided into two sides (one for preteens, the other for teens), housing games for each and a small galley kitchen in the middle.
After touring the Park Nicollet Women’s Center in Minneapolis last week as part of the Healthcare Design Academy, I can understand why so many patients react with awe and confusion. It doesn’t feel like a clinic—a comment the staff has heard from more than one patient or family member walking off the elevators.
University of Florida Health Jacksonville (UF Health) opened in March 2015 to provide medical care to an underserved area in North Jacksonville, Fla. The $52 million, 210,000-square-foot facility was designed by Gresham, Smith and Partners (Nashville, Tenn.) and includes two hospital floors with imaging, surgery, support services, and a 28-bed emergency department (ED), as well as four floors of physician office space.
The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine on the University of Connecticut Health Center campus, in Farmington, Conn., facilitates the discovery of personalized treatments for cancer, diabetes, immunology, neurodegenerative disorders, and microbiology based on information derived from an individual’s genome.
While world leaders gathered this week at the G-7 Summit in Germany discussed the impacts of climate change globally, Robin Guenther, a principal with Perkins+Will (New York office), is focusing on what it means to healthcare facilities in the U.S.
The principal at Boulder Associates Architects discusses the top five trends and issues getting her attention right now.
The population of Fort Collins, Colo., has increased by more than 30 percent since 2000. To help meet the healthcare needs of this fast-growing city, the University of Colorado Health System needed to expand its Poudre Valley Outpatient Cancer Center.
Body mass index, or BMI, has been the traditional benchmark for classifying obesity, which affects more than 60 million adults in the U.S. But Christopher Upton, a project manager at the University of Texas Office of Facilities, Planning, and Construction (Austin, Texas), says that the system falls short in adequately defining the bariatric patient population.
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.
Obesity is a problem in this country that’s not going away, says Christopher Upton, a project manager at the University of Texas Office of Facilities, Planning, and Construction (Austin, Texas).
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.
