Administrators at Mills-Peninsula Health Services in Northern California don't like their odds. They are building a new hospital less than two miles from the San Andreas Fault, where the U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake rivaling that of the 1906 San Francisco...
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Hospital Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Project Summary Casa da Saúde Portugal Client: Sanusquali, SA Architect: RSO Architecture, Braga, Portugal (http://www.rso.com.pt) Total Project Area: 334,558 square meters above ground; 473,845...
On November 14, the California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) approved plans to amend the requirements for hospital seismic safety measures in order to delay billions in premature spending. The new requirements will allow significant savings in the state's...
When textile designer Louise Russell first brought her design concepts to New York-based Carnegie Fabrics in 1997, textiles for the healthcare industry were in a rut. Colors were institutional, patterns were simplistic, and fabrics were simply viewed as decoration for...
Images courtesy of Matrix Systems Martin Epstein, manager, Technical Operations—Protective Services, Cleveland Clinic. Racks of DVRs in the data center. Thirty-four-monitor video wall in the command center. Break room with kitchen and locker space. The incident...
Patient and visitor violence against hospital staff is a real issue, considering that officials at the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) documented 55,000 reported incidences of physical assault against staff in 2007. The figure represents 4.2% of NHS’ 1.3 million...
An interior designer synonymous with the field of healthcare design is Tama Duffy Day, FASID, IIDA, LEED AP. A winner of multiple awards who is deeply involved in academia and professional association leadership, she is the only designer to have received three Health...
When you planned that healthcare construction project three or four years ago, you assumed that costs in general would rise pretty much in line with consumer price increases, and you built that into your estimates. Over the last couple of years, though, it hasn't been...
When the term “Pebble” was coined to describe The Center for Health Design's field study research project, it was intended to be a metaphor for the reaction a small stone creates when tossed in a pond. That reaction is a ripple that radiates slowly but deliberately...
IMAGES COURTESY OF NURTURE BY STEELCASE IMAGES COURTESY OF NURTURE BY STEELCASE While a recent report by the American Cancer Society announced that the number of deaths due to cancer has declined overall since the 1990s, the number of consumers for oncology care is...
Medical headboard With angled sides to enhance access while protecting cords, the Hill-Rom Medical Headboard's design accommodates bariatric beds, protects walls, and permits integration with any color in the headboard. It can be equipped with normal power, emergency...
