Some of the most spectacular hospitals ever conceived were built more than 80 years ago for treating tuberculosis. From the great TB hospitals of Europe, such as Alvar Aalto's Paimio Sanatorium in Finland, to the modest “cure cottages” of the Adirondacks, the...
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“Run until apprehended” is the mantra of a new hospital project I am involved with. The CEO is not reckless—just the contrary, actually. He is a thoughtful, provocative, and inspiring leader. The goal behind this slogan is to not have the team fall prey to the...
Project Summary Client: Gaston Memorial Hospital Architecture: KMD (Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz, Inc.) General Contractor: Bovis Lend Lease Civil Engineering/Landscape Architecture: ColeJenest & Stone Structural Engineering: ABKJ MEP Engineering: PWI Consulting...
The biggest trends in healthcare are the biggest trends in healthcare interior design: patient safety, wireless technology, and hospitality. They all rely on interior design solutions early in the process to be successful. If you're a hospital stakeholder working on a...
When I was in high school, I enrolled in an art school but, at the last minute decided I wanted to go into medicine instead. Today, as a family practice physician and fine artist, I've been lucky enough to combine both of my life's passions into two careers. I like to...
The healthcare environment, physically and operationally, is in a constant state of transformation—learning from the “recent past” and building on the “just passed.” One significant development in the 1990s was the advent of the universal patient room, a concept that...
This article is the third in a series on healthcare design in the United States and the United Kingdom. In the May 2004 issue (“Lessons From Both Sides of the Pond,” p. 23), Derek Parker contrasted healthcare architecture in the two countries, and in the November 2004...
Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. —William Butler Yeats Since 1966, we have developed, fostered, and nurtured a dynamic, close, and successful relationship between education and practice at Texas A&M University's College of...
3Smoke evacuation sounder System Sensor's new ExitPoint sounder uses Directional Sound to identify escape routes leading to perimeter exits in the presence of smoke. ExitPoint, fitted in conjunction with normal building evacuation sounders, offers a way to draw people...
Lesson 2: Make the Experience Personal “The Experience Architecture Forum at Harvard,” the notice read to my as yet disbelieving eyes. And then this: “Experience Architecture applies what we have learned from 150 years of world's fairs, guest venues, and the...
“What? How can you even suggest that we need additional beds! We are only operating at 65% occupancy. The Board will think I'm crazy to even think about increasing our bed capacity, given such a low overall occupancy rate,” says the anonymous CEO.
Unfortunately, on any given day, many hospitals are running at an occupancy rate so high that it could have a negative impact on patient safety and quality of care–even though their overall annual occupancy is reported to be below 70%.
