As part of its HH2020 master plan, Hartford HealthCare of Hartford, Conn., broke ground on a new orthopedic facility in October 2014. The Harfortd Hospital Bone & Joint Institute’s dynamic, sculptural form expresses the hospital’s aim to become the leading institution in comprehensive musculoskeletal care for the northeast region while addressing the hospital’s need for increased ICU, operating room, and private patient room spaces.
University of Kentucky’s $265 million, 306,000-square-foot collaborative research center broke ground on Oct. 23 at its Lexington, Ky., campus. Scheduled for completion in the summer of 2018, Research Building Two (RB2) will house scientific research aimed at resolving a number of health disparities, comprising cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and obesity.
What’s service design and how can it improve the patient experience? That’s what Allison Matthews, a senior service designer at the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation was on hand to explain to attendees of the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference on Monday.
The ambulatory care trend isn’t going anywhere. And as hospitals and health systems continue to spread their reach into communities through smaller clinics and medical office buildings, the more they’re considering leasing these spaces as opposed to buying.
From shopping centers to office buildings to mixed-use developments, possible locations for new healthcare offerings are endless. However, much of the success of these efforts can hinge on one thing: the lease itself.
It’s not every day that an acute inpatient behavioral health hospital opens in a converted four-story office building, but that’s just what Quail Run Behavioral Health Hospital did in November 2014.
The team behind the considerable challenge shared the project story on Sunday of the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference in the session “Quail Run Behavioral Health Hospital: A Story of Conversion.”
What are people saying about your organization? What do you want them to say? What are you doing to get them to say it?
Breaking ground in 2012 as a major piece of Inova Health System’s capital improvement program, the new Inova Women’s Hospital and Inova Children’s Hospital in Falls Church, Va., will open to patients in January 2016. But, first, attendees of the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference in Washington, D.C., got a sneak peek during facility tours held Saturday.
To align with the changing needs of the healthcare sector in Detroit, Detroit Medical Center (DMC) sought to create a hospital that would best serve its patient population today as well as have the ability to be rearranged or expanded as needs evolve.
Sandra Bond Chapman, PhD, founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas, has not only imagined a world where we take as much interest in the health of our brains as we do the rest of our bodies, but has spent her career researching ways that anyone—from children to seniors to healthy people to those with traumatic brain injuries—can improve their brain function.
ReadyMed Plus, a new walk-in medical facility and infusion suite in Worcester, Mass., is an example of Reliant Medical Group’s goal of delivering healthcare that’s most convenient for the way people live today. Reliant is a multispecialty medical group with more than 300 doctors and 2,500 employees located at more than 25 practice sites throughout central and MetroWest Massachusetts.
Clarity Child Guidance Center is a nonprofit children’s hospital in San Antonio that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, with an existing campus built in the 1980s within the South Texas Medical Center.
