Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center (PSJMC) in Burbank, California, is no stranger to challenges. Like many California institutions, the hospital was damaged by the severe 1994 Northridge Earthquake. With the assistance of the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
When Sutter Roseville Medical Center (SRMC) in Rose-ville, California, decided to embark on an ambitious master plan that included a variety of renovation and expansion projects, the organization's decision makers realized that changing how the projects would be...
The healthcare facilities market continues to experience revolutionary change. Many factors contribute to the evolving nature of healthcare facilities and their ability to contribute to effective patient care, such as new technologies, volatile reimbursements, and...
There's a saying among seismologists: “Earthquakes don't kill people. Buildings kill people.” They make a good point. It's not the enormous shock waves of energy released during an earthquake that cause most injuries and fatalities. It's how the structures in which...
Henry Ford is widely believed to have said of his Model T, “You can paint it any color, so long as it's black.” Would that construction projects were so easy. The design guru from “On High”—an architect, a facility planner—says, “It shall be thus!” And, lo and behold,...
Three major patient care trends have crept up on general acute care hospitals and influenced their operations, which serve patients and caregivers in an ever-more-restricted-payment environment: (1) today's hospitalized patients are sicker, (2) patient care is more...
SMWM Architecture approached me to do an art-glass feature wall for the new meditation chapel at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. It was great to have the opportunity to collaborate with SMWM on this project and see our idea come to fruition....
Edward Hospital & Health Services (EHHS) in Naperville, Illinois, has been involved in a series of renovation and new construction projects to provide much-needed healthcare services to its service area. These projects include a new heart hospital, a renovated...
Dialysis patients across the country are receiving fast-track, quality care in newly completed healthcare facilities they could almost call home. These facilities house highly accessible, comfortable patient areas that include not only dialysis equipment, but also...
As announced in March, The Center for Health Design is excited to be developing a new set of tools to complement an evidence-based approach to designing healthcare facilities. We're also pleased to announce the publication of our book, Improving Healthcare With Better...
It is no secret that healthcare projects, and new hospitals in particular, are some of the most complex buildings being constructed today. Even more complex is the coordination of all the working systems and technologies that help hospital professionals save lives....
Excerpts adapted from the session “Healthy Hospitals: Boston Green Building Initiatives,” presented April 20, 2006, at CleanMed 2006 in Seattle Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) continues to collaborate with a number of leading Greater Boston healthcare capital projects...
