I have just returned from our HEALTHCARE DESIGN.07 conference in Dallas, and am amazed at how many of us are working to improve an industry that is slow to change. The girth of the healthcare industry makes change difficult unless it has widespread acceptance. It is...
Moving parallel with the welcoming of new residents to one of the fastest-growing counties in Indiana, a new patient tower extends a cheery, light-filled, warmly sensitive greeting to the area's newborns. Community Hospital North, until a few years ago a modest,...
Nursing unit design has always fascinated healthcare architects. Not just because it's an interesting design problem with inherently competing needs and conflicting goals, but also because a quick study of the evolution of the nursing unit reveals that we have...
Sustainable seating collection Designed in collaboration with several healthcare architects, designers, and professionals, all of Krug's Jordan products are GREENGUARD™ certified and have been designed to achieve reduced environmental impact: Steel and foam components...
More and more design professionals and healthcare leaders are finding value in utilizing an evidence-based design process to build better buildings that help improve quality and safety. While the terms “evidence-based design” and “healing environments” have become...
As the green building movement expands, so does the awareness of buildings' overall effects on human health and the environment. Although hospitals and their operations have always had a large footprint, only recently have designers, contractors, operators, and even...
When Dublin Methodist Hospital (DMH), a new 333,000-square-foot, 94-bed full-service hospital, opens in Dublin, Ohio, in January 2008, an artistic masterpiece will be unveiled that combines years of research and evidence-based design principles with a design that uses...
As we did in our December 2006 issue, HEALTHCARE DESIGN has decided to put a bow on the year that was by asking recognized architects, interior designers, and consultants in the field to nominate their peers whom they thought had made a significant difference in...
This past September, on one of those perfect days where the sun is shining bright but the air has that crisp coolness to it that lets you know fall is just around the corner, I drove down the coast from San Francisco to Big Sur to attend a retreat-style meeting on...
When Alegent Health was formed in 1996 by joining two 100-year-old-plus healthcare entities—Bergan Mercy Health System and Immanuel Medical Center (part of Immanuel Health Systems)—many opportunities arose to integrate support services among the six total hospitals in...
Like a Lexus,” is how engineers have described how the Hoag Hospital Sue & Bill Gross Women's Pavilion would perform when faced with a major seismic shock. It is the first structure of its type in California to use a moment-frame steel structure sitting atop...
Why five comments? I really don't know—maybe it's what easily fits into a column this length. Heaven knows it's possible to write articles, white papers, books, and super-sized tomes about the subject these days. I would say, conservatively, that half our recent...
