David Burson, AIA, Senior Project Manager, Partners HealthCare, is an architect with more than 30 years of planning, design, and project management experience in both private and public sector practice. His work has focused primarily in the areas of institutional...
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HCD.10: Has the use of evidence-based design changed in the last year?
At the HEALTHCARE DESIGN.10 conference, The Center for Health Design will present the results of its second annual survey (conducted through support of Herman Miller) that validates the current state of evidence-based design in the marketplace and measures...
HCD.10: Metrics today, metrics tomorrow
Practice Greenhealth has compiled data from its 2009 and 2010 Environmental Excellence Award applications, in an effort to break "greening" down into specific activities and help identify the structure that supports ongoing environmental improvement activities in the...
HCD.10: HITECH Meets Healthcare Design
The transformative effects of healthcare reform and ARRA-HITECH are not always apparent to facility planners and architects, but the provisions are tightly linked to building and renovation plans, Healthcare Informatics Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland told the Healthcare...
HCD.10: The Importance of Widespread Empathy in the Healthcare Design Industry
Dev Patnaik, the CEO of Jump Associates and author ofWired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, helped kick off the official start of HEALTHCARE DESIGN.10 as Sunday’s keynote speaker. Dev reminded us all of an important component of...
HCD.10: Thoughts from a tour of Sunrise Children's Hospital, Las Vegas
I visited Sunrise Children's Hospital yesterday as part of the Facility Tours program offered at the HEALTHCARE DESIGN.10 conference in Las Vegas, and to call it an eye-opening experience is an understatement. Architecturally speaking, Sunrise isn't the most striking...
HCD.10: An evidence-based design furniture checklist
Eileen Malone, RN, MSN, MS, EDAC, Senior Partner, Mercury Healthcare Consulting, LLC, and Barbara Dellinger, MS, AAHID, IIDA, EDAC, MDCID, Director, Health Care Interiors, East Coast, HDR, Inc., will be presenting their findings during the session "An Evidence-based...
HCD.10: The first step toward efficient ED design
Increasing efficiency and reducing waste have become key components for many aspects of the modern hospital, be it reducing patient waiting times and increasing throughput, or simply finding more convenient ways of doing things. Frank Zilm, DArch, FAIA, FACHA,...
HCD.10: Icon for brain health
The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health is being offered as one of many tours on Saturday, Nov. 13, at the HEALTHCARE DESIGN.10 conference. Tours will be held from 1-5 p.m. and also include Centennial Hills Hospital, CSN Health Sciences & Nursing,...
HCD.10: The countdown is on!
Only FIVE DAYS until the HEALTHCARE DESIGN.10! This year’s HEALTHCARE DESIGN Conference in Las Vegas (11/13-11/16) is shaping up to be our best yet. We have some great presenters and partners this year including; award winning author and business consultant Dev...
Election Season Closes … But Where Does it Leave Healthcare Design?
The 2010 midterm elections were closely contested races that left mixed feelings on both sides of the political aisle. The lead-up to the state and local elections was the usual flood of television advertising, yard signs, and political celebrity appearances. With all...
The 2010 International Architectural Showcase Projects (Digital Magazine)
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