The expansion and renovation increases the hospital’s outpatient capacity by 21,000 visits per year.
Jennifer Silvis
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Sum of Its Parts
Healthcare environments are achieved through the selection and specification of countless design products, and our new Buyers Guide is here to help.
Data Transmission: The Role Of Big Data In Healthcare Design
The availability and use of big data isn’t just influencing care delivery but the design process used to create productive healthcare spaces.
Privacy, Please: Acoustics To Support Patient Privacy
In addition to minimizing noise disruptions in healthcare facilities, designers must also provide patient privacy. Here are a few tips on best practices.
Transition Time
The nation and industry prepare for a new president, while we here at Healthcare Design share our own shift in leadership.
Union Village: The Value Of Early Input From End Users
The team behind the new UHS Henderson Hospital, part of the Union Village health village project in Henderson, Nev., reflects on the importance of including all parties in the design process from start to finish.
PHOTO TOUR: Yale New Haven Health Park Avenue Medical Center
Take a visual walk through Yale New Haven Health’s Park Avenue Medical Center in Trumbull, Conn., opened in May.
A Sound Plan: How To Achieve Optimal Healthcare Acoustics
Proactively addressing a top complaint in hospitals, designers are tasked with keeping decibel levels down in order to keep patient outcomes and satisfaction up.
Contract Magazine Veteran John Rouse Named Publisher Emeritus
John Rouse, veteran publisher of Contract magazine, the leading publication for commercial interior design and architecture, was today named Publisher Emeritus. In his new role, Mr. Rouse will provide insight and expertise to the Contract magazine staff. Contract is...
A New Administration Brings New Uncertainty
Any conversations between healthcare providers and their design partners regarding capital projects were colored by a marked sense of uncertainty leading up to passage of the hotly contested Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010. It continued until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the law constitutional in June 2012 and then upheld it against another challenge in 2015.
HCD Expo Keynote: Diagnostic Challenges in the New Era of Health IT
Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal, professor of medicine at University of California San Francisco, studies how doctors think, providing a unique perspective on what exactly takes place between the time a patient presents with symptoms and a diagnosis is finally reached.
HCD Expo Tour: Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Building
The mission of the University of Texas MD Anderson’s Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Building for Personalized Cancer Care—simply put—is to cure cancer.
But what goes into achieving that mission is far more complex.
That’s where the design of the translational research building comes into play, supporting not just laboratory and office space, but putting people and partnerships at the heart of the building via centralized collaboration spaces.
