Client: University Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona (Steve Brigham, Director, UMC Capital Planning & Projects) Architecture: CO Architects, Los Angeles, California (Stephen Yundt, AIA, ACHA, Principal-in-Charge; Dennis McFadden, FAIA, Design Principal; James Simeo,...
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Cha Women & Children's Hospital SeongNam, Korea KMD Architects
Client: CHA Health Care System Project location: 351 Ya Top-Dong, Bun Dang Gu, SeongNam, Korea 463-712 Architecture: KMD Architects Joint venture or associate Architecture: YO2 Architects Structural engineering: ALT structure group MEP engineering: HANEUN Engineering...
Weill Greenberg Center New York, New York Polshek Partnership Architects/Ballinger
Weill Greenberg Center creates a striking and singular new identity for the Weill Cornell Medical College and for healthcare (figure 1). Replacing an unsightly parking lot, the 330,000-square-foot, 15-story building is the first stage in Weill Cornell Medical...
Is volunteerism part of what makes America special?
On the evening of September 11, 2008, a Presidential Candidate Forum on National Service was hosted at Columbia University in New York City. Senators Barack Obama and John McCain were both asked to address the topic of national service. As each presented his views, I...
Collaboration to strengthen sustainability
In February, construction began on what will be Washington state's first LEED-certified inpatient hospital. In mid-February, Puyallup's MultiCare-Good Samaritan Hospital authorized registration of the project as a candidate for LEED for New Construction 2.2, targeting...
A hospital without beds
Bellevue Medical Center Bellevue, Washington Project SummaryProject Completion Date: July 2008 Owner/Client: Group Health Cooperative Architecture: Ellerbe Becket, 501 2nd 2nd Street., Suite 701, San Francisco, CA 94107 Local architectural partner: NAC Architecture,...
A Sign of Excellence
When Tom Rockers arrived at St. Anthony's Medical Center in St. Louis as the facility's new president and CEO in 2003, he had a mandate from the hospital's Board of Directors to improve all facets of operations. It didn't take long to determine that one fundamental...
Healing Environments for America's Heroes
“I want you to imagine how our future military hospitals look, feel, and act. We will have healing settings that are: quiet, organized and filled with light, where patients get few if any infections, places that minimize the possibilities of falls designed to reduce...
Shenzhen Third People's Hospital Shenzhen, China TRO Jung Brannen
Owner: Shenzhen Third People's Hospital Architecture: TRO Jung Brannen Associate Architects: AHS International Architectural Design Consulting and Shenzhen General Institute of Architects Design and Research Interior Design: Shenzhen General Institute of Architects...
Creating ripples, making waves: A preview of Pebble presentations at HEALTHCARE DESIGN.08
HEALTHCARE DESIGN.08 will be held in Washington, D.C., November 8-11. Ten out of the 49 educational sessions to be presented at the conference will come from the Pebble Project, a research program created by The Center for Health Design to implement evidence-based...
Nurses organize to take a seat at the planning table
After attending the HEALTHCARE DESIGN.05 conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, a small group of registered nurses were inspired to address a knowledge gap they found among nurses who are increasingly being invited to the planning table. Since then, the Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design has been helping to educate and inspire nurse leaders in their role in healthcare design and construction.
A clinical impact
The installation of art programs in hospitals is not only a new and evolving concept, but also an expensive one with only incremental amounts of research. Though studies show that views to the outdoors, soothing and calming colors, and the presence of nature and art...











