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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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.
Many factors are at play today in shaping the future of the emergency department (ED), a space that’s likely to face rising demand.
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].)
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.
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.
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
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.
