Surgery is being revolutionized. For example, minimally invasive surgery has yielded dramatic benefits, including shorter recoveries and fewer complications. Robotic surgery is improving surgeons’ consistency and reducing fatigue. Invasive cardiology is restoring...
Project Summary Client: HCA/HealthONE Hospital Architecture: Gresham, Smith & Partners Medical Office Building Architecture: Davis Partnership Civil Engineering, Interior Design, Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Plumbing Design, and Electrical...
BASED ON AN INTERVIEW WITH LINDA MARZIALO, PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT, GOULD TURNER GROUP, PC Project Summary Client: Flathead Outpatient Surgery Center/Northwest Imaging, Inc./Kalispell Regional Medical Center Architecture: Gould Turner Group, PC Construction: Swank...
Hardware for sliding doors/panels Flexible Suspension Hardware for sliding wood doors from Hafele America Co. is easy to use and install, and is maintenance-free. Hawa Junior, an innovative, low-friction rolling system for sliding wood doors, is available in four...
Can you imagine putting your best friends through significant pain, knowing that you could have prevented it? How about literally choking their customers or threatening their employees? You just don't treat friends that way. In June, CG Schmidt Construction completed...
When the Bassett Healthcare System, based in Coopers-town, New York (yes, that Cooperstown), asked us to participate in the RFP for a master plan, we knew that they had been reviewing their organizational strategy for some time. Bassett's centerpiece is a 200-bed...
Awareness of autism has grown rapidly in recent years, as the rate of diagnosis increases and high-profile celebrities—NFL quarterback Doug Flutie and popular novelist Nick Hornby, for example—openly discuss their children's cases. A focal point of today's research on...
When Lisa Antoun was first treated for can-cer, she received fine medical care—but, in the process, she faced many obstacles not uncommon in older hospitals, among them long corridors, crowded waiting areas, and lack of centralized services. So, in addition to...
Traditional hospital design revolved for years around the dual concepts of hospital “productivity” and healthcare business economics. A few years ago a third design criterion emerged: patient safety. Since then, healthcare has pushed in a new direction—patient-focused...
Evidence-based design is a concept that has enormous instinctive appeal for those interested in clinical outcomes, performance improvement, and objective decision making, as discussed in the first in this series of three articles on evidence-based design (“The Four...
With JCAHO urging Emergency Departments to correct overcrowding, lengths of stays, and unsafe caregiving conditions, hospitals all over the country are scurrying to upgrade their ED facilities. Here are a few tips: Constance Nestor is Associate Vice-President and...
Sadly, The Center for Health Design lost one of its friends and long-time board members recently. Russ Coile, one of the nation's top healthcare management consultants, died November 10 at age 60, from complications of brain cancer. Russ was a pioneering healthcare...
