When NYU Langone Medical Center embarked on a multi-phased expansion and renovation project in 2011, part of the plan was to keep the ground-level emergency department open during construction. But 20 months into the project, Hurricane Sandy hit, filling the facility’s cellars and basements with 15 million gallons of water.
“It wasn’t possible to open or immediately relocate the ED,” says Claudia Gorun, senior program director, NYU Langone Medical Center (New York).
The Herman Family Pavilion on the campus of Queen of the Valley Medical Center (Napa, Calif.) is a new diagnostic and surgical pavilion that’s scheduled to open for patient care in November 2014.
The three-story, 72,000 square-foot facility, designed and constructed by Petra Integrated Construction Strategies (La Palma, Calif.), is built to the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Gold standards.
Attendees of the 2014 Healthcare Design Conference will have a chance to look into the future through the eyes of a diverse group of healthcare leaders during the closing keynote presentation, “Changing Healthcare—Innovation and Leadership Forging a Bright Future.”
In January 2014, the University of Delaware’s Health Sciences Complex became the first new construction project to open as part of a 272-acre redevelopment at the site of a former automotive and U.S. military tank assembly plant.
Healthcare facilities geared to men are few and far between, especially compared to women’s or children’s specialty centers. So when NYU Langone Medical Center decided to open a new outpatient clinic in Midtown Manhattan dedicated solely to the Y chromosome set, Perkins+Will knew it had a rare opportunity to do something special.
If the men in your family are like mine, they never go to the doctor until they absolutely have to—and even then they still wait a few more days before calling to get an appointment to get that cough looked at or that sore shoulder x-rayed.
But with the shift toward preventative care and an overall focus on wellness and community health, more men may be putting aside their fears and reluctance and going to the doctor more often. And when they do, shouldn’t the right environment be there to help welcome them, put them at ease, and ultimately keep them coming back?
The Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center holds a special place in the organization’s history. Opened in 1942 to treat Kaiser shipyard workers and their families, Henry J. Kaiser stood on the steps of the Oakland hospital when he launched his prepaid medical care program.
The benefits of private patient rooms are widely understood, from improving patient satisfaction to reducing healthcare-associated infections. But that doesn’t mean that there’s been wholesale adoption among healthcare facilities.
I’ve written about bariatric design for healthcare facilities and what are the right considerations to make so that all patient populations have a welcoming and comfortable experience at a facility.
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.
Healthcare facilities are finding ways to incorporate daylighting into some nontraditional areas, including the surgical environment.
At 742,000 square feet, it would be hard to miss South West Acute Hospital. And yet Showcase jurors couldn’t help but comment on how “authentically human,” “intimate,” and “reminiscent of a village” the greenfield project feels, set among the hills in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
