It’s unlikely that many firms will find themselves with a project in remote San Juan County, Washington, but the takeaways from one that did are plenty for anyone taking on a rural healthcare facility. In the session “Embracing the Rural Hospital Challenge: Peace...
James C. Benneyan, PhD, didn’t mince words during his Tuesday morning general session, “Looking Back and Ahead at the Quality and Patient Safety Movement: What Does it Mean for Patient Care and Hospital Facilities?” at the ASHE PDC Summit in Tampa, Florida. Benneyan...
No two healthcare facilities are exactly the same, and it appears to me more and more that the only way a single facility can truly be successful is to know its patients and their needs to the very core. Two such examples of this process were featured this morning at...
There may not be an immediately obvious parallel between healthcare design and construction and space exploration. But once the topic of teamwork is broached, how the two fit together quickly becomes a lot more clear. Teamwork is what allows our industry to construct...
Incorporating hospitality elements into healthcare design isn’t necessarily a new concept. However, Heartland Health in St. Joseph, Missouri, took that goal very seriously by hiring David Jones right from the hospitality industry, where he worked for several years as...
March 6-12 marked a weeklong recognition of the importance of patient safety, spearheaded by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF). The foundation designs the event around the need to highlight improved patient-provider communication as a vital part of keeping...
I’m very excited today to tell our readers the news that we’ve signed on a new blog team here at HEALTHCARE DESIGN. We have 13 contributors from HKS, Inc., who will be sharing with us their insights, observations, and general “two cents” on healthcare design. You can...
Have the winter doldrums got you down? I certainly know my answer to that question as I type this from our offices here in blustery Cleveland. It turns out that just as we all have experienced a good dose of the “winter blues” in our everyday lives, so do patients...
Since joining the HEALTHCARE DESIGN team last year, I’ve noticed my entire perception of healthcare facilities has become much more thoughtful and introspective. With each visit to a doctor’s office, I think more and more about how I feel and what influence my...
It’s no secret that now isn’t exactly a boom time for construction, whether in the public or private sector. However, it appears the industry must prepare for yet another blow, at least according to numbers just released by the Associated General Contractors of America.
Recently on the website of our sister magazine, HEALTHCARE DESIGN, Ashely Dias, AIA, EDAC, LEED AP, a healthcare planner at
Healthcare business advisory firm The Camden Group tried its hand at making some New Year’s predictions for 2011 in its annual Top 10 Trends in Healthcare list. The issues that the healthcare industry are likely to face this year are similar to those carrying weight...
