As a landmark for a new community, the Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel campus is the latest addition in the provider’s Tampa Bay division. Partnering with HuntonBrady Architects (Orlando), the staff and design team created design directives for the $81 million project, such as recognize the location, enhance time optimization, and provide a fresh approach to architecture.
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) of Medical Research is Australia’s oldest medical research facility. The institute’s location in Melbourne, Australia, is among the world’s most concentrated medical science precincts and includes the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Commonwealth Serium Laboratories, and Royal Children’s Hospital. Also nearby are The University of Melbourne and Monash University’s Facility of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
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It’s estimated that more than one billion people will take part in this week’s annual Earth Day celebration. Launched in 1970 and celebrated every year on April 22, a lot has changed in Earth Day’s four-plus decades of influence. Individually, we’ll seek out products that are sustainable or green, we don’t think twice about placing pop cans and old newspapers into a green bin, and biking or commuting to work is not such a far-out idea (especially considering the ever-rising cost of gas).
Jean Hansen is on a mission to green healthcare interiors. “Years ago, I started realizing that the products we specify have chemicals of concern in them that could affect our health,” she says. “I began asking manufacturers what goes into their products and then looking for safer products.”
Oftentimes interior designers, architects, and facility owners don’t fully understand the expertise and creativity that the field of environmental graphic design (EGD), an intersection of communication design and the built environment, can bring to a project.
In this series, Healthcare Design magazine asks leading healthcare design professionals, firms, and owners to tell us what’s got their attention and share some ideas on the subject.
Andy Keller carries the unofficial title of “wayfinding missionary.” As president of Cincinnati-based Keller Studio Inc., Keller’s worked on a number of pediatric interiors, including Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, and he believes that what you put under your feet is just as important as what you hang on the walls or sit on.
In this series, Healthcare Design magazine asks leading healthcare design professionals, firms, and owners to tell us what’s got their attention and share some ideas on the subject. This week’s Top Five list comes from Joe Sprague, director of health facilities, principal, and senior vice president at HKS Inc.
In this new series, Healthcare Design magazine asks leading healthcare design professionals, firms, and owners to tell us what’s got their attention and share some ideas on the subject.
Here, AECOM’s Sheila Cahnman, vice president, healthcare market sector leader, Christy Devens, interior project designer, and Mark Reckin, senior medical planner, open up about healthcare for millennials, branding and more.
The overall objective for the 60,000-square-foot Coquille Valley Hospital replacement project was the transformation from a provider-centric model into a patient-centric experience. This goal was achieved through the expansion of medical services, incorporation of wellness programs, improved operational and staffing efficiencies, enhanced patient and staff safety, and space flexibility.
One observation I’ve made during my journey into the world of healthcare design is that there are a lot of neutral-colored care centers for adults. While children’s hospitals are bursting at the seams with rainbow-inspired lobbies, decorative floor motifs, and color-changing room lighting, the 20-and-older-set is likely to see a palette of beiges and whites on their next visit to the doctor’s office or ER.
With a service area that covers 47 percent of the expansive state of Texas, Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth draws patients from as far west as El Paso and as far south as Austin. That often meant its 55-bed neonatal intensive care unit, one of the highest level NICU programs in the country, didn’t have enough space to meet population demand. In 2009, the hospital received state approval to add beds inside the open-bay care unit. But the fix wasn’t big enough.
