The capacity of the arts to produce beneficial health outcomes has been appreciated intuitively for some time. Nearly half of all American hospitals utilize some form of arts-based activity to serve patients, visitors, and staff. But it is only relatively recently...
I recently sat in a hospital project team meeting where a colleague asked what the Pebble program was giving to the design effort. In the architect's eyes, the design interventions being proven right now are the intuitive no-brainers that many design professionals...
Photography by Joel Koyama In November 2006, the design firm Perkins+Will introduced an innovative model in the design of hospital rooms for child patients who experience extended hospital stays. The design infuses these long-duration medical spaces with an intensely...
When Lily's situation became critical, her parents were moved to an improvised seating area in the nurses' station at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Baptist Health's Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. As doctors worked on their daughter,...
I have been subscribed to the H2E Info Exchange Listserv for a number of months now. As I am relatively new to the fields of healthcare design and operations, this listserv has been a helpful education tool for me. I get a daily dose of info on topics such as medical...
As I was slogging through the tedious task of uploading the 300-plus Architectural Showcase project floorplans today, I decided to listen to one of a number of new healthcare design podcasts from the AIA. I listened to the Relationship between Design and Healthcare...
In a live Webinar October 4, Lola Fritz of PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center in Oregon gave an in-the-trenches overview of the planning and design process for a 1.2 million square-foot replacement hospital that's system built. Critical in the design process was...
“A mind is like a parachute, it only works when it is open.” Today the population of planet Earth is approximately 6.6 billion people. By 2050, the population is projected to be 9.5 billion people. The needs for appropriate health and hospital facilities will be...
Lamps with organic contours The Pod Lamp by Studio Lilica is an elegant expression of nature. Made from inherently flame-resistant fabric on a lightweight frame, the organic forms soften light and radiate a feeling of well-being. The lamps are available in more than...
It's 80°F. Looking through the open window, down a steep hillside overgrown with lush green vegetation, the Caribbean Sea stretches out to the horizon. Inside, a gentle breeze keeps the humidity at bay, while a hummingbird alights on a bright yellow hibiscus by the...
with a mission and mandate to provide quality healthcare, education, and research to the people of India, the new Tata Medical Centre in Kolkata (Calcutta) will serve the northeastern regions of India, as well as the neighboring countries of Nepal, Bhutan, and...
Hospices will never cater to the vast majority of people, most of whom will die at home, in residential care, or on the ward of a mainstream hospital. Nevertheless, the modern hospice movement—which many date from the establishment of St. Christopher's Hospice in...
