The procurement model for the Bridgepoint Active Healthcare Bridgepoint Hospital project is design, build, finance, maintain (DBFM), a common strategy used in the healthcare industry outside of the U.S. Under this model, the consortium developer, Plenary Health Bridgepoint, finances construction and maintains the project over a 30-year period.
Thanks to a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), The Center for Health Design (CHD) has embarked on a three-year quest to make hospitals safer for patients and staff.
Completion date: June 25, 2013
Owner: Bridgepoint Active Healthcare
Architecture: Stantec Architecture/KPMB Architects (planning, design, and compliance architects); HDR Architecture/Diamond Schmitt Architects (design, build, finance, and maintain architects).
Interior design: Stantec Architecture/KPMB Architects (planning, design, and compliance architects); HDR Architecture/Diamond Schmitt Architects (design, build, finance, and maintain architects)
Designing a new hospital is always a complex process. In Canada, it’s even more complicated because, historically, new facilities have been paid for by the government and require a different type of approval process than in the U.S. Bridgepoint Active Healthcare's new Bridgepoint Hospital, a healthcare and rehabilitation facility in Toronto that opened last June, is no exception.
According to a survey released by the Beryl Institute earlier this year, 84 percent of healthcare organizations rank the patient experience in their top three priorities. And yet, 58 percent claim they haven’t made investments specifically related to improving the patient experience. (For a more complete analysis of the survey, read Jennifer Kovacs Silvis’s June 20 blog post.)
Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) of building performance is the process of systematically and rigorously evaluating buildings after construction and occupancy, and providing feedback. As one of the key components of continuous improvement of the built environment, the POE process has been widely adopted by both the public and private sectors for the assessment of many building types as a means and offers significant benefits in the short-, medium-, and long-term.
Dr. Edward Levitan, founder of Visions HealthCare, a private health and wellness center, spent nearly two years searching for an ideal spot to relocate the practice. Proximity between the new facility and an existing one in Wellesley, Mass., was key to allowing practitioners and staff to move freely between the two while capturing an expanded patient base. And Levitan found that opportunity in a location in Dedham, Mass., at the site of a shuttered restaurant.
The Group Health Puyallup Medical Center, a new 53,000-square-foot, two-story facility in Puyallup, Wash., is the first project in the country to achieve certification under the new LEED for Healthcare rating system (LEED-HC).
The hybrid medical professional—physician-writer, physician-researcher, physician-educator, and the physician-editor—is often mentioned in literature and popular press. As a self-labeled “dochitect,” I propose a new hybrid model, the physician-architect, with the intent of bridging the gap between architecture and medicine through the field of healthcare design.
Offering refreshing solutions to projects’ specific design challenges, three of this year’s Healthcare Design Architectural and Interior Design Showcase submissions earned a Citation of Merit Honorable Mention.
Offering refreshing solutions to projects’ specific design challenges, three of this year’s Healthcare Design Architectural and Interior Design Showcase submissions earned a Citation of Merit Honorable Mention.
Offering refreshing solutions to projects’ specific design challenges, three of this year’s Healthcare Design Architectural and Interior Design Showcase submissions earned a Citation of Merit Honorable Mention.
