The typical hospital design process is often more participatory by nature than the design process used to develop many other types of large facilities. The traditional hospital design process involves a large number of staff members who participate in user groups that...
The Center for Health Design is pleased to be associated with Clean Design and Operations and its publisher, Vendome Group, LLC. Environmental sustainability has long been of interest to us and is one of the core values that we support and promote in all the work we...
For me, art is a spiritual path, a transformational process, a way of being. I define an artist as one who must make art. I have always loved nature and my artwork reflects this love. Plaine aire painting (painting in nature) imbues nature's color, scale, and vast...
Materials technology is of endless fascination to architectural designers and planners, and the designers/planners of healthcare projects are no exception. Recent years have seen innovative developments not only in patient- and staff-friendly layouts and amenities,...
From a publishing standpoint, there is no more exciting event than the launch of a new publication. The thought of opening up a communication channel that didn't exist before on freshly emerging topics is highly gratifying. What is particularly noteworthy, to us as...
Mention the name Nancy Gummer in sustainable food circles and you're likely to get a nod of recognition. The avid bicyclist and North Dakota native has been getting national attention of late for her revamped food service operation at Good Shepherd Healthcare in...
Laura Brannen On a recent tour of a high-profile green hospital, I noticed something odd—no recycling bins; not in the nurses' stations, not next to the copier, not anywhere. This raises an important concern and is a key reason that Hospitals for a Healthy Environment...
Not long ago I had the severe displeasure of reading a book called The Edge of Disaster by one Stephen Flynn (Random House, New York, 2007). Mr. Flynn is billed in the author blurb as being “among the world's most widely cited experts in homeland security and trade...
The Nightingale Awards are the industry's fi rst and most prestigious healthcare-product design competition. Sponsored by Contract magazine in association with The Center for Health Design and Vendome Group, LLC (publishers of HEALTHCARE DESIGN) and judged by a panel...
To realize their vision of becoming “world class,” The Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) knew that “business as usual” would not apply. Building on the strategies set forth by its board in 1998, and on the heels of the completion of another campus facility...
Most healthcare facilities are unprepared to meet the special needs of extremely obese patients in terms of facility design and equipment planning. This remains true even though hospitals not affiliated with bariatric surgical programs are affected by the sharp increase in extremely obese patients. Consider these staggering statistics:
Evidence-based design (EBD) is an approach to environmental design (architectural, interior, and landscape) that aspires to base design decisions on documented research and well-established best practices, with the aim of improving outcomes.1,2,3 Evidence-based design...
