The 2:15 p.m. session on Tuesday, November 15, at HEALTHCARE DESIGN.11 gave attendees a chance to see how three Emergency Departments (EDs) are using inventive design concepts to improve patient satisfaction and advance operational efficiency. Donald McKahan, AIA, FACHA, principal, McKahan Planning Group, Frank Zilm, FAIA, AIA, FACHA, president, Frank Zilm Associates, D.
HEALTHCARE DESIGN conference, held this year at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, brought together luminaries from the advisory boards of HEALTHCARE DESIGN, Healthcare Building Ideas, and the HERD Journal for the morning general ses
Recently, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, added several floors to its existing bed tower, offering the chance to study outcomes of inpatient unit decentralization on teamwork and operational efficiencies.
Human performance expert Andy Core, MS, is looking to shake things up.
At a Tuesday lunchtime ceremony at the HEALTHCARE DESIGN.11 conference in Nashville, The Center for Health Design, joined by several of its partners, handed out its annual awards to the healthcare design community. Honoring colleagues and peers for everything ranging from architecture to product design, the ceremony was a celebration of the industry's achievements, both over the course of the last year and, in the case of the Changemaker Award, the course of a long and storied career.
As someone who has spent time sitting in pediatric exam rooms with my children for their wellness visits or times when they weren't feeling their best, I was particularly interested in this education session at HEALTHCARE DESIGN.11 presented by Travis Leissner, AIA, director, KMD Architects, and Kaye Schmidt, RN, MA, CPON, NEA-BC, senior director,
In their session at HEALTHCARE DESIGN.11 on Monday, Terri Kurrasch, Steven Steinberg, and Ross Levy of Ratcliff outlined some concepts and ideas that may not have seemed radical on the surface, but add up to a major shift in the way healthcare–and healthcare design–is delivered. Kurrasch outlined several of today's major healthcare trends: an aging society, rising healthcare consumerism and education, a changing physician/patient relationship, and, of course, rising costs despite our best efforts to the contrary. It's becoming apparent that there is a gradual move from a hospital to a healthcare system. This method supports programs of care that cross hospital and practice settings, reduces duplication, and allows greater integration with hospital-based resources. I wasn't sure exactly what to expect as our HEALTHCARE DESIGN.11 facility tour bus drove up to Vanderbilt Health's One Hundred Oaks Outpatient Clinic Mall. Sandwiched between a TJ Maxx and a K&G Men's Store, One Hundred Oaks was the first closed indoor shopping mall in Nashville, originally built in 1968. By 2005, the mall was dead in the water, another casualty of suburban flight. The HEALTHCARE DESIGN conference offers attendees the chance to tour a selected group of healthcare facilities in the area and I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to visit one of the featured tours at HEALTHCARE DESIGN.11—Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Tennessee. One of HEALTHCARE DESIGN.11's roundtable discussions at 11:30a.m. on Monday, November 14, will focus on post-occupancy evaluations and other lessons learned. In this HEALTHCARE DESIGN.11 conference preview, Bryan Brinkman of B4 Architects touches on brief points of the design process for the Livingstone Accident & Emergency Unit (A&E) in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
HCD.11 Session Review: Accountable Care–Ecology in Healthcare Delivery
HCD.11 Session Review: Enhanced Patient Experience–Design Driver for Urban Hospital-Based Ambulatory Care
HCD.11 Facility Tour: The Ultimate Recycling Project
HCD.11 Facility Tour: Prioritizing Healthcare for Children
Roundtable Discussion Preview: Healthy Village-Lessons Learned from an Integrated Care Delivery Model
Session Preview: Accelerated Construction of a State-of-the-Art A&E Unit in South Africa
