Project Summary Owner: The Health Alliance of Cincinnati Architecture: RTKL (Dallas, Texas) Medical Equipment Planning: RTKL Healthcare Technologies Low Voltage Systems: RTKL Special Systems Design Group Construction Management: Mortenson-Messer Healthcare...
Although most commonly used as smaller mobile care units, such as MRI rooms, applications range from dialysis facilities and pharmacies to surgical suites, or even emergency care units rapidly deployed in the aftermath of a natural disaster. “This option provides a...
Over the years nature photographer Henry Domke, MD has become synonymous with healthcare art. His hundreds of photographs encompassing woodlands, streams, the seashore, and flora and fauna, some of it extremely close up, grace the walls of physicians' offices and...
A few months back I was having dinner in Washington, DC, with two very intelligent and engaging women; Esther M. Sternberg, MD, the author of the new book Healing Spaces: The Science and Place of Well-being, and Jennifer Wilcox, the past director of education for the...
Eco-friendly healthcare fabrics Momentum Textiles launches the Evolve Healthcare Collection using reduced environmental impact materials and processes. MBDC Gold Certified patterns, Decimal and Aperture, are constructed of 100% eco-intelligent polyester and contribute...
When designing the patient room, what bathroom design do you use most often? 23.08% - Inboard 7.69% - Outboard 15.38% - Nested 53.85% - We use all three, depending on the project
As healthcare facilities continue to find design inspiration from the hospitality industry, healthcare planners and designers are taking a deeper, more accommodating view toward campus planning, designing landscaped sites that offer respite in redeeming, natural...
When considering the word intern, one assumes a student or a recent graduate undergoing supervised practical training. This is the path pursued by most architecture graduates on their way to acquiring the status of a fully-trained or licensed professional. This period...
Headwalls are always a point of debate. Do you just build the devices to the wall and stop there or do you use a purchased headwall unit? The in-the-wall advocates will tell you that you do not need to spend $1,000 or more for a hunk of plastic, aluminum, plastic laminate, or whatever it is, in order to have a place to terminate the devices (gasses, power, low voltage). Those who favor the purchased units will say that it is better for cleaning and easier to make location changes or additions later.
How often do you use modular solutions in your designs? 63.64% - We always try to use modular solutions 27.27% - Only when the client requests 0.00% - Modular solutions are often cost prohibitive 9.09% - We never use modular solutions
The current H1N1 Pandemic seems to have infection control on everyone’s mind around the world. The topic of infection control is nothing new to healthcare facilities that have had their attentions focused on this critical subject for half of a century since it...
With massive changes looming in the healthcare industry, including the influx of millions of new customers, what will happen to campus parking systems? When bed census ceased to be the driver for parking calculations because of increases in outpatient services,...
