Given a unique location on the coastline, the new ED and surgical tower at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Fla., are designed to embrace flexibility and resiliency.
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When Disaster Strikes: Setting The Standard
Doug Pierce, director of Perkins+Will’s Resilience Lab, and Julie Frazier, senior medical planner at Perkins+Will, update the industry on progress made since USGBC formally adopted RELi, a resilience consensus standard developed by Perkins+Will and the Institute for Market Transformation to Sustainability (MTS).
When Disaster Strikes: Creating An Emergency Plan
As the entry point for a hospital’s response to many types of crisis scenarios, emergency departments must develop disaster preparedness plans that cover all scenarios.
When Disaster Strikes: Innovating Disaster Response
In addition to the winner of Healthcare Design’s Breaking Through conceptual design competition, two other submissions that explored how to respond to disaster events more efficiently and effectively.
When Disaster Strikes: ROI Of Resiliency
A recent report outlines key strategies that healthcare organizations might explore to capture the benefits of resiliency and rebound more quickly in a crisis.
When Disaster Strikes: Designing For Seismic Survival
Located between two distinct fault lines, Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer, Alaska, was designed to seismic standards that were tested in a November 2018 earthquake.
When Disaster Strikes: Using Data In Resilient Design
This article is part of an expanded online version of "When Disaster Strikes," a special report on designing for resiliency and disaster preparedness that was first published in the March 2019 issue of Healthcare Design. Healthcare Design talks to Amir Rezaei,...
When Disaster Strikes: Healthcare Resiliency Special Report
Resilient design strategies are helping healthcare organizations prepare and respond to numerous threats.
Emerald Expositions, ASID Form Strategic Partnership
Healthcare Design’s parent company will partner with the professional interior design association to deliver thought-provoking new content and enhance participant experience at all of Emerald’s design trade shows and conferences.
February Online Focus: Behavioral Health
Healthcare Design’s monthly Online Focus feature compiles recent coverage on targeted topics to help readers quickly get up to speed on pressing issues or refresh themselves on latest trends. For February, we look at recent coverage on behavioral healthcare projects and design approaches.
Striking A Balance: 2018 Nightingale Awards Best Of Competition
The designer behind Best of Competition-winning Ascend from Krug shares how the patient recliner answers the needs of multiple users.
Winner Slideshow: 2018 Nightingale Awards
View the Gold, Silver, and Innovation winners from the Nightingale Awards presented at the 2018 Healthcare Design Expo & Conference.
