Project category: New construction (completed January 2007) Chief administrator: Charles Scoville, Director, Amputee Program, (202) 782-5848 Firm: SmithGroup, (202) 974-0815 Design team: Philip Tobey, FAIA, FACHA, Principal-in-Charge; William Kline, AIA, CAA, LEED AP,...
This project consists of a two-story atrium space and a new adjacent four-level, 80,000-sq.-ft. medical office building (MOB). The MOB lobby features a consolidation of the entry points for multiple outpatient services and connects the new MOB to two existing medical...
Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) has a distinguished hundred-year history of innovation in medical science and patient care. Each year it admits more than 33,000 inpatients and serves roughly half a million outpatients. It operates some of the largest...
Project category: New construction & Remodel/Renovation (completed March 2007) Chief administrator: Charles Scott, Chief Executive Officer, (678) 604-1001 Firm: CDH Partners, Inc., (678) 784-3708 Design team: Tom Danner, Senior Project Manager and Designer; Troy...
Advanced diagnostic imaging equipment presents a huge set of design challenges for healthcare facilities. Issues involve the planning for the technology itself, the rapid obsolescence and replacement of that technology, and safety concerns for both patients and staff....
An exhibit of 29 black and white photographs is encouraging an atmosphere of communication and education at The Gathering Place, a community-based cancer support center in Beachwood, Ohio. Opened on June 4, the day after National Cancer Survivors Day, and ending on...
Children's Hospital Boston at Waltham began life as a satellite campus for Children's Hospital Boston (for more on the main campus, see page 20), but it soon grew to have its own distinct identity. Designed by Boston-based architectural firm Steffian Bradley...
Gina Adams noticed that her daughter's color had paled slightly as she slept in her intensive care bed surrounded by all sorts of medical devices. She glanced towards the door of the private room and could see the face of her ICU nurse peering over the PC at the...
These days many hospitals are buying into the seemingly self-evident concept that their environments should be among the cleanest and safest—in a word, the “green-est”—available to society, but such was not always the case. As recently as seven years ago, when a young...
Colorful tile TOLI's Linotesta and Viale tiles, seen here at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, Nashville, as designed by Earl Swenson Associates, feature rich colors and ease of maintenance. Both Linotesta and Viale resist staining, cracking, and chipping and reduce...
community (noun): a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage. It's interesting that this traditional definition assumes a physical location is necessary to create a...
Because of a miscommunication, an incorrect set of photographs was published in the article “The Nursing Unit of the Future,” Healthcare Design May 2007, p. 34. The correct photographs for that article, describing the nursing unit design by the Callison architectural...
