The new state-of-the-art Emergency Department at Lankenau Hospital receives 30,000 visits annually. The unit now can handle up to 45,000 cases a year. It more than doubles previous space and capacity, from 7,000 square feet and 13 beds to 19,000 square feet and 26...
The 10,800-square-foot radiation oncology center at Olympic Medical Cancer Center was designed to create an uplifting atmosphere that encourages healing. Architecture is closely integrated with interior design to create a facility that brings together the indoors and...
Located atop a 16-story hospital patient tower, the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Pavilion offers distinctive services and amenities to patients in the atmosphere of an elegant club or hotel. The Pavilion suite is a private, exclusive, and secure environment that can...
Wellness centers in many variations are being developed throughout the United States, with the most typical model being a hospital-based outpatient center with integrated wellness services. Although most of these centers are owned by healthcare institutions, generally...
“Design a state-of-the-art faculty dental practice with the ambience of a Ritz-Carlton Hotel”-that was the dictate of Harold Slavkin, DDS, the new dean of the University of Southern California School of Dentistry. Lured from his position as director of the National...
“Logical, not lavish” characterized the entire approach to Froedtert Hospital's first inpatient expansion project since it opened in 1980. An aggressive effort to seek staff and patient input was crucial to our success. By methodically implementing the planning...
Nearly everyone who has seen the popular TV series ER thinks he or she knows what a typical emergency room looks like: doctors scurrying around (and sometimes on) crash carts, people bumping into each other and into various pieces of equipment scattered about...
Wall-Saving Recliner Sieste Wallsaver from Braytonspaces incorporates the award-winning features and superior strength of its sleeper version. The Wallsaver Recliner features a removable seat and a black powder-coated mechanism that only requires 5″ of space to fully...
As we all know, change is inevitable. It's often unpredictable and, more often than not, brings new opportunities. This is the case for The Center for Health Design. After more than a decade and a half of either producing or being associated with The Symposium on...
This year has seen the opening of the Brenner Children's Hospital, a six-story vertical expansion of Wake Forest University's Baptist Medical Center. Offering many features to enhance children's experience in visiting and receiving treatment at the hospital, the...
In looking at the interior design of a space, what says “hospital”? And what can we do about it if we don't want to hear it anymore? Recently HEALTHCARE DESIGN spoke with three interior designers who have helped lead the charge away from that institutional look so...
Among the worst sounds a construction manager can hear is that deep breath, followed by a whistle, that emerges after clients see the bids that come in. If clients aren't prepared for this, the construction manager has not done his most important job: eliminating...
