Founded in 1978, Whitman-Walker Health’s roots are in serving individuals who face barriers to accessing care, starting as the Gay Men's VD Clinic and evolving to become Washington, D.C.’s primary HIV clinic.
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Take 5 With John Michael Currie
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.
John Michael Currie is a 40-year veteran of the healthcare design industry and serves as vice president of healthcare at Baskervill (Richmond, Va.). Here, he shares his thoughts on infection prevention, project budget constraints, and the importance of beauty in healthcare spaces.
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Podcast: 3 Design Ideas That Are Transforming Emergency Departments
The emergency department—whether on a hospital main campus, in a freestanding location, or specifically designed for a particular segment of the population—and its role in healthcare is evolving.
In this Healthcare Design podcast below, Jeff Brand, design principal at Perkins Eastman, Jon Summers, principal, BRG3S Architects, and Craig Pickerel, project manager and architect at SSOE Group, discuss the trends they’re seeing and some of the design strategies they’re putting into place inside these important, lifesaving spaces.
Design Strategies For Today’s Emergency Departments
Many factors are at play today in shaping the future of the emergency department (ED), a space that’s likely to face rising demand.
A Look Back At Design Ideas Of 2014
Healthcare Design regularly checks the pulse of the industry by inviting healthcare design professionals to share what’s on their minds and why, via our Take 5 column.
This year, we heard from healthcare planners, CEOs, designers, architects, and more on a range of topics, from branding and population health to technology and building resiliency. (If you want to start off the new year sharing your own Take 5, contact me at [email protected].)
PHOTO TOUR: UAB Student Health and Wellness Center, Birmingham, Ala.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) saw a need to modernize its student health facilities to meet the evolving needs of its growing student population. The university had experienced six straight years of record overall enrollment and a 30 percent increase in the demand for health and counseling services since 2012.
Eskenazi Hospital: One Year Later
Nearing the one-year anniversary of the opening of the Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital in Indianapolis, members of the design team took part in a roundtable discussion at this year’s Healthcare Design Conference in San Diego to share how new design features and operations were performing against expectations.
Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital: Project Breakdown
Project source list:
Completion date: December 2013
Owner: Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion County, parent company of Eskenazi Health
Total building area: 882,346 SF (hospital); 198,435 SF (ambulatory care building); 12,600 SF (central utility plant); 23,300 SF (central boiler plant); 300,000 SF (faculty office building)
Total construction cost: $593 million
Architecture: HOK (executive architect), Ratio, BSA LifeStructures, Blackburn Associates, A2S04, Synthesis, DSR
Interior design: HOK, Maregatti Interiors
Design Lessons From The Global South
While the healthcare issues and design challenges faced on other continents may differ, there's still much that can be learned and adapted to the work being done in North America.
Changemaker Award: Let’s Reset Healthcare Expectations
Change is about meeting a fundamental need, Avein Saaty-Tafoya told audiences at the Healthcare Design Conference.
On stage to accept The Center for Health Design's Changemaker Award, which honors organizations and individuals that have demonstrated the ability to change the way healthcare facilities are designed and built, Saaty-Tafoya talked about her career and serving the needs of others as a doctor, an artist, and in her current position as CEO of Adelante Healthcare.
Setting Expectations To Succeed With Lean Design
Clinicians spend the majority of their time on tasks that do not add value, such as walking extra distances to find supplies or having to make phone calls to check in on medication deliveries, Gerard Leone, principal, Leonardo Group Americas, told an audience at the 2014 Healthcare Design Conference in San Diego.
"We need to design spaces around processes that will reduce that non-value add time," he said.
During the session, "The Interventional Platform of the Future: Design Using Lean Principles and Tools," Leone
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.
