Communication is the transportation of information. Just as America's roads and highways can be small and overcrowded or vast and speed-driven, so can today's hospital communications systems. By dissolving individual wireless and stationary network systems into a...
The Children's Hospital (TCH) in Denver, Colorado, consistently ranked as one of the Top 10 children's hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report, embarked on the design of a new 1.4 million-square-foot hospital complex which would include a design...
Proton therapy treatment centers are opening the door to a new era in radiation treatment for cancer patients. Proton therapy targets a controlled beam of protons at malignant tumors to kill and to halt the reproduction of cancer cells. This technology differs from...
For architectural firms, healthcare is one of the few market segments with a promising future, in large part because of aging baby boomers needing long-term care. Consequently, many companies are rushing to get on the bandwagon and develop a healthcare division....
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Hospital Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Project Summary Project Inception:August 2007 Completion: January 2011 Developer: ALDAR Owner: Mubadala Operator and Management: Cleveland Clinic Master Architect: HDR, Inc. (San Francisco) Design...
Take a 1970s administrative office building and renovate one of its suites to accommodate four orthopedic operating rooms, five post-op areas, five pre-op areas, a patient waiting area, staff office space, a clean room, a decontamination area, a pharmacy, and a nurses...
The other day I came across a term—a pun, actually—that I thought was perfect: “starchitects” (the reference being an interview in the British online news magazine Building Design with HOK chairman Bill Valentine). Mr. Valentine's point was that many of today's...
In 2004, when CO Architects began master planning and designing Palomar Medical Center West (Palomar West, figure 1), a new 725,000-square-foot district hospital in northern San Diego County, we felt we had a once-in-a-generation opportunity. The historical context...
For many years, healthcare facility teams have relied on standards programs to run the process of environmental updates and changes to the facility smoothly and efficiently. Staff decision-making time was minimized by referring to a manual, quite often produced by a...
When a community joins together to support and encourage those in need, an art project can become about much more than decoration, which is exactly what has happened in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers, Arkansas. In addition to...
Minimally invasive and image-guided surgeries increasingly occur in operating rooms equipped with advanced audio-visual technology. These rooms, often referred to as Integrated or Digital Operating Rooms, are turnkey installations that include high-resolution video...
