For years Erminia (Mimi) Guarneri, MD, has, like Don Quixote, been battling windmills. Frustrated by the limitations of conventional medicine in keeping her cardiology patients from returning for yet another balloon angioplasty or stent, she knew there had to be a...
As the operating costs of medical office buildings (MOBs) continue to rise, creating an efficient MOB can help control expenses, as well as make life easier for patients and physicians. When planning an MOB for optimal efficiency and function, the first step is to...
When a renowned children's hospital seeks to expand its market, it shouldn't be surprising when it does so in spectacular fashion. The Seattle-based Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center was already well established in the Seattle/Puget Sound area...
The need for complicated, lifesaving services often drives the shape and layout of healthcare buildings. In contrast, parking structures are staid and solid and are at their best when they go unnoticed. Because of the utilitarian nature of parking structures, they are...
Before the first meaningful design concept hits the drawing board, project planners and programmers set the rules of the game. How will the facility be organized? What are the goals, and how are they to be prioritized? How will designers obtain information, and from...
Imagine a cancer center constructed without materials that contain known human carcinogens, or a hospital that serves organic food and meat without added antibiotics. These are among the more than 160 strategies that define a new age of “high-performance healing...
How often does one see a family tragedy transformed into a project aimed at uplifting the lives of thousands of children and their families? In Valhalla, New York (Westchester County), just such a project opened its doors last year. The Maria Fareri Children's...
You might have had the experience of going to a beautiful restaurant and having terrible service. What did you tell your friends about the restaurant? Excellent healthcare can be provided in the most depressing surroundings—and the patient will remember the excellent...
What is value to a healthcare institution? Value is providing quality healthcare services to your patients at a competitive, fair price. It is respecting your employees and providing them with a safe and healthy workplace. Value is serving your community without being...
Direct-Indirect Luminaires Corelite™/Cooper Lighting offers the Corelite Navigator Series—three distinct modular architectural fluorescent luminaires with an array of optical-control features for complex direct-indirect applications requiring energy-efficient ambient...
Back in the 1980s, a number of art dealers, close friends of mine, died of AIDS. I spent time caring for them in the hospital and then, later, caring for both my parents in the hospital. Every so often I would need a break and would spend time in the cafeteria or by...
When the Georgia Institute of Tech-nology elected to demolish its old student health center and build a new one, Lord, Aeck & Sargent architects Howard S. Wertheimer, AIA, LEED™ and James Nicolow, AIA, LEED™ knew that Georgia Tech had one overriding requirement:...
