About 40 EFA attendees and I went on the afternoon tour of Splendido at Rancho Vistoso, a resort-styled retirement community with 246 independent apartments/villas, 36 SNFs, 12 assisted living apartments, and 12 dementia care units. The presenters at the facility...
We decided to create an EFA-specific blog at www.ltlmagazine.com/BlogEFA. But I will also try to repost any content here on the HCD blog that may be of specific interest to HCD readers.
Just sorting out some things today before leaving for Tucson Sunday morning for theEnvironments for Aging conference. I hope to spend the majority of Sunday all by myself—no work, no family, no one I even know—just doing whatever I went, hopefully outdoors! Although...
I am currently working on a partnership project to renovate a psychiatric inpatient unit to be more therapeutic. Many behavioral health facilities are dated and an institutional. Budgets are often to blame along with aging facilities. We are in the process of securing...
A Joint Commission roundtable recently called for the development of a national performance measurement data strategy. The press release says that most performance measurement efforts operate in isolation from one another and rarely provide a consistent picture of...
I just found this environmental initiative/event posted by a loyal H2E listserv contributor (see my “Serving up your daily green design and operations dose” post for more info on the listserv). Here’s her post (nearly) word-for-word and my follow up: Hi Practice Green...
OPPOSITE-HANDED PATIENT ROOM: Decibel Comparison @ 500 Hz. SAME-HANDED PATIENT ROOM: Decibel Comparison @ 500 Hz. It's already well-established that noise can be a problem in healthcare environments. Studies show that noise from mechanical devices, patients and their...
The Carolinas Medical Center campus looked pretty rigid before the Levine Children's Hospital project came along; leadership looked to Columbus, Ohio-based firm Karlsberger to help lead them to a new place. Bookended by two existing towers, the new 234-bed,...
Presumably within a matter of days, if it hasn't happened already, the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) will publish the final version of the long-awaited LEED for Healthcare. For the first time since its inception 10 years ago, the Leadership in Energy...
Certain requirements in the 2005 National Electric Code have electrical engineers throughout the country scrambling to design emergency and legally required standby systems in aging buildings affordably and efficiently. Sections 517.26, 700.18, and 701.27 were added...
A healthcare icon in Orange County, California, St. Joseph Hospital celebrated its 75th anniversary in March 2004 during the groundbreaking of the hospital's new Patient Care Center. This momentous occasion kicked-off the master facility plan for the medical center...
Renowned photographic artist Alan S. Maltz has garnered international acclaim and awards, but you'd never know it based on his down-to-earth, unassuming persona. “For me, it's a labor of love,” he says. “Photography is how I express both my artistic and spiritual...
