All images courtesy of K.R. Moeller Associates, Ltd. Over the past several years, researchers have highlighted the importance of acoustic control in healthcare settings. Topics include patients' right to speech privacy, as well as the physical and psychological...
Recliner/sleeper chair ZZZZZ from Elements of Care provides the options of a chair, a recliner with ottoman, or a bed with the push of a button or flip of the wrist. The back reclines to any position via a pneumatic piston; an optional storage ottoman slides out from...
I recently attended a presentation by Cynthia Leibrock, MA, ASID, Hon. IIDA, in San Francisco that addressed the unique design needs of different healthcare populations. It started me thinking about the opportunity each and every one of us involved in creating the...
Is I write this we are approaching the opening day for HEALTHCARE DESIGN.05, our third annual conference, which runs from November 6-9 in Scottsdale, Arizona. It will come as a surprise to no one that recently we carefully reviewed our registrant listings to see which...
Project category: New construction & Remodel/Renovation (completed November 2004) Chief administrator: Davide Carbone, Chief Executive Officer, (305) 682-7100 Firm: Gresham, Smith and Partners, (813) 251-6838 Design team: Orlando Lopez-Isa, AIA,...
Healthcare is changing. Baby boomers are aging and demanding top-quality medical care closer to home. Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center is prepared with its expansion of six stories and a lower level. The expansion nearly doubles the square footage of the...
Project category: New construction (completed March 2005) Chief administrator: Robert McFarlane, Principal, Trammell Crow Company, (214) 979-6100 Firm: Ascension Group Architects, (817) 226-1917 Design team: David Tooley, Principal-in-Charge (Ascension Group...
Project category: Remodel/Renovation (completed November 2004) Chief administrator: Arthur Ushijima, President and CEO, (808) 547-4688 Firm: Pacific Asia Design Group, Inc., (808) 595-6600 Design team: Ann N. Matsunami, AIA, Principal; Lorrie Dalton, Interior Designer...
A hospital is a complex structure from an affective and relational point of view, where patients' and staff members' sensitivity to the effects of environmental quality are heightened. A project should try to reduce the typical depersonalization patients suffer when...
Project category: New construction (completed May 2004) Chief administrator: Lynn Mergen, Chief Executive Officer, (972) 963-3045 Firm: RTKL Associates, Inc., (214) 871-8877 Design team: Brad Barker, AIA, Principal-in-Charge; John Castorina, AIA, ACHA, Design Leader;...
Maggie Keswick Jencks couldn't have said it better than that. Diagnosed with cancer in 1988, she asked herself many questions, including “How am I going to deal with this?” and “What are the questions that I should have asked my doctor but didn't?” She felt that...
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore recently commissioned planning, architectural, and engineering services for a Labor/Delivery/Recovery Suite and Postpartum addition and renovation on the hospital campus. As part of this project, the firm conducted focus groups with the...
