“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” This quote defines the will of a community of changemakers attracted to The Center for Health Design's work. A research and...
Every medical facility has an infection-control program to provide a safe environment for patients, visitors, staff, and outside vendors. Medical staff are familiar with infection-control procedures and must deal with them on a daily basis. Their knowledge and...
How does one move a high-tech cancer treatment center, complete with linear accelerator, from an overcrowded hospital basement to a classic residential neighborhood without driving the neighbors away? That was the challenge faced by Shore Memorial Hospital in the...
Several decades of managed care and evolving technology have dramatically reduced the number of inpatient beds in U.S. hospitals. The result is an inadequate capacity to provide medical care to large numbers of patients should a man-made or natural disaster occur. On...
Does this sound like a familiar scenario? Your new healthcare facility has a beautiful architectural design, construction documents are close to completion, and construction is imminent or well under way. Now for the interior design/FF&E (furniture, fixtures, and...
An important group of recent studies is validating the green building requirement that access to daylight be increased. These studies deal with benefits connected to, but separate from, outcomes related to energy efficiency strategies. While they do much for...
Project Summary Project Client: The Gathering Place Landscape Architecture: Virginia Burt (Visionscapes), collaborating with MSI Landscape Architects Photography: Marc Golub Photography Completed: May 2005 Total Project Area (sq. ft.): One-third acre Total Cost:...
In August 2002, one of the country's first all- digital, patient-centered, freestanding cardio-vascular care hospitals opened in Oklahoma City. Hailed as a new model for cardiology facility design, it quickly became an industry benchmark. Since opening, Oklahoma Heart...
Hospitals are discovering a new customer base: visitors and employees who previously went off-site for their café lattes and panini sandwiches. These people constitute a captive audience that wants something different, and they are willing to pay a higher price for...
Project Summary Architecture: Lighthouse Architects, 527 Architects Construction Management: McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. MEP Engineering: C&R Mechanical Co., Guarantee Electrical Co., Grasse Services, Inc. Landscape Architecture: SWT Associates Photography:...
I've loved glass since I was a little boy, when my father and grandfather had a jewelry business that sold blown glass. When I was older, I apprenticed under an Irish stained- and leaded-glass artist, then later studied with German and Swedish glass artists and fell...
It always starts this way—with great hope, unbridled enthusiasm, and imaginative artists' renderings. All of the input sessions and planning meetings, developed and discarded design concepts, conventional wisdom, and new-to-the-world thinking have come to this moment...
