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.
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.
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.
LEED, Cradle to Cradle, EPDs, and HPDs. The list of sustainability initiatives, design tools, and rating systems—as well as acronyms—continues to grow.
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.
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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.
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.
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.”
