The New Parkland Hospital project in Dallas is a $1.27-billion healthcare campus that includes replacement of the existing 56-year-old Parkland Memorial Hospital. The Parkland campus is located within the Southwestern Medical District and serves as a teaching hospital for the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine.
Neurological diseases such as autism, cerebral palsy, and Rett syndrome affect more than 1 billion people worldwide, including 300 million children. In a pioneering move, Texas Children's Hospital opened the world's first basic research institute dedicated to childhood neurological diseases and is bringing together a multidisciplinary team of geneticists, biologists, neurobiologists, physicists, behavioral scientists, computer scientists, and mathematicians under one roof to unlock the mysteries of childhood neurological diseases.
Completion Date: Phased opening (January through June 2011)
Owner: Phoenix Children's Hospital
Architecture, Interior Design, and Structural
Engineering: HKS, Inc.
Construction Manager: Kitchell Contractors
Civil Engineering: Evans Kuhn & Associates
MEP Engineering: ccrd partners
Programming: Blue Cottage Consulting
Telecommunications: Sparling
Landscaping: Site Design Group/Talley Associates
The Center for Health Design's (CHD) board of directors may have appeared to be stagnant with many of the same individuals serving for years. This has been a deliberate governance structure that gave our small nonprofit organization continuity and stability for many of its early years. In a profession that has been growing slowly, the field of leaders has been spread among a few professional organizations, many with overlapping interests. Eight years ago, Len Berry joined CHD's board and led the charge to create a governance infrastructure.
A few years back at one of HEALTHCARE DESIGN's annual Editorial Advisory Board meetings, a board member (and if I could remember who, I would tell you) suggested that the magazine try to publish some “themed” issues. The idea was that by highlighting a number of...
The practice of the sole practitioner is going by the wayside, perhaps the way house calls once did? More and more, we are seeing the sole practitioner absorbed by group practices, multi-specialty practice groups, or healthcare organizations. The necessity to be in alignment is obvious. EMR is leading to this alignment. Patient-focused interdisciplinary team medicine is leading to this alignment. Models in continuum of care are leading to this alignment.
