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...
It's always fun to view old and not-so-old movies to get a technological fix—that is, an appreciation of the wonderful technologies that we have at our daily beck-and-call today. One need only go back to films circa 1990 to see characters clunk themselves upside the...
Pfizer, with large campuses on both sides of the Thames River in southeastern Connecticut housing its Global Research & Development headquarters, brings medical innovations in the form of life-extending and life-improving medicines to millions of patients around...
The Melinda French Gates Ambulatory Care Building at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle may look more like an aquarium than a hospital. With life-size orcas floating above, a 20-foot octopus creeping across the wall, and portholes to...
Imagine being a physician prepping for surgery with mere sketches as a guide. You must perform the coronary bypass without accurate data: no X-ray fluoroscopy, no echocardiogram, no heart cath. Your only map is a pencil drawing of the patient's body from 10 years ago,...
Project Summary Type of Facility: Children's Hospital Completed: March 13, 2006 (new construction); renovation construction to be completed August 2007 Hospital Administration: Ruth Benfield, Vice-President of Psycho-Social Services, Children's Hospital and Regional...
Surgical suite design has changed significantly over the past ten years and will continue to evolve over the next decade. Some of the key changes that have already had an impact include: The shift from separate suites for Pre-op, PACU, and Stage 2 Recovery to more...
Virtua Health is a not-for-profit, multihospital healthcare organization in southern New Jersey with more than 7,200 clinical and administrative personnel and 1,800 physicians as medical staff members. As a part of a quest for excellence, Virtua became a Pebble...
In April, The Center for Health Design (CHD) in conjunction with Vendome Group, LLC, launched, with great success, the first annual Environments for Aging conference in Baltimore, Maryland. It was attended by the who's who in the world of designing for the...
I don't know if it's possible to be “trendy” west of the Adirondacks or east of the Sierra Nevadas, living as I do in tragically non-hip Cleveland. But it's always fun to indulge in “trend spotting,” wherever one happens to be. And, for an editor, it is especially...
There have been two major changes that affected the design of Pre-Op and Stage 2 Recovery areas. The first was the merging of these two functions into one shared suite that allows for shared staffing and a more efficient use of the space. The efficiency is largely...
