Eskenazi Health Creates A Feast For The Senses
Eskenazi Health employs a range of strategies at the Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital to connect to nature and encourage healthy lifestyles, from its calming interior that incorporates plentiful daylighting to the outdoor spaces that can be viewed from numerous locations on the campus. But it was during a planning meeting with one of the landscape architects when the project’s most profound concept was born: a rooftop farm.
Tour: Douglas & Nancy Barnhart Cancer Center at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center
Eskenazi Health: Art history
Indianapolis’ public safety-net hospital has gone through multiple name changes—starting as City Hospital in 1859 and changing to Indianapolis General and Wishard Memorial before becoming Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital in 2013. But during all those years—and name changes—it’s held a strong commitment to artwork in the healing environment.
Eskenazi Health Embraces Its Civic Duty
Public safety-net hospitals are used to focusing on the needs of their communities, bringing a range of services to a diverse patient population. However, five years ago, Wishard Memorial Hospital found itself turning to its Indianapolis community for help.
PHOTO TOUR: The Miriam Hospital Emergency Department
The Miriam Hospital, which has served the Providence, R.I., area since 1926, has experienced an increasing demand for its emergency department (ED) over the years. As patient visits grew, the nearly 20-year old department was becoming overcrowded and unable to accommodate medical and technical advances.
A renovation project was started in September 2012 and broken into five phases, which allowed the ED to remain operational during construction. It was completed in May 2014.
New ASID Tool Aims To Break Through The Sustainability Clutter
LEED, Cradle to Cradle, EPDs, and HPDs. The list of sustainability initiatives, design tools, and rating systems—as well as acronyms—continues to grow.
Podcast: Design Goals Of A New Public Safety-Net Hospital
In 1859, City Hospital opened in Indianapolis first to treat small pox and then to serve as a military hospital. Over the next 155 years, as the facility evolved, added services, and changed names—from City Hospital to Indianapolis General Hospital in 1947 and Wishard Memorial Hospital in 1975—it didn’t always have the capital structure to incorporate new designs and technological advancements, instead opting to do small upgrades here and there.
Like A Good Neighbor: Eskenazi Health, Indianapolis
We hear a lot about community health and how hospitals can use their role in our lives to help promote healthy living and active lifestyles.
Take Five With Raymond E. Brower
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.
PHOTO TOUR: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
As part of a larger plan to increase bed capacity within an existing wing of the hospital, Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Lavallee Brensinger Architects (Manchester, N.H.) collaborated on the creation of a new 13,500-square-foot critical care unit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Q&A: Interior Design Trends For Healthcare
For the past three years, the International Interior Design Association (IIDA; Chicago) has honored originality and excellence in the design and furnishings of healthcare interior spaces through its Healthcare Interior Design Competition.
