The executive leadership of King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, embarked on expanding its urban campus from about 280 to more than 750 beds of tertiary care.
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FIRST LOOK: Saint Barnabas Medical Center
Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., is building a $250 million expansion, totaling 241,000 square feet of new construction and 29,000 square feet of renovated space, to better respond to changes within the healthcare industry. Occupancy is expected in 2017.
The expansion will create a welcoming new front door while enhancing the quality of patient care and positioning the hospital to attract the best doctors.
FIRST LOOK: Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital
To improve life for cancer patients in bustling, metropolitan London, it literally takes a village of caring clinicians. That’s just what the new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital set out to achieve with its design based on a village concept.
Healthcare Design Legacy: Michael Graves
Postmodernist architect Michael Graves became a household name thanks to his popular line of consumer products for Target, but it was his mission to revolutionize the way that homes, office buildings, and—specifically—healthcare facilities are built that left an indelible mark on the world of architecture in general and accessible design especially.
New Mercy Hospital Joplin Is Built "Just In Time"
In the hours and days immediately following the May 22, 2011, EF-5 tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo.—including the former St. John’s Mercy Regional Medical Center—there wasn’t a whole lot of time to think about rebuilding.
FIRST LOOK: Cherokee Indian Medical Center
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has occupied its existing healthcare facility for 45 years. In 2002, the tribe took full ownership of healthcare operations from the Indian Health Service and by late 2013 began an ambitious program to replace an existing facility and significantly improve and expand services for its population located in the remote mountains of western North Carolina.
FIRST LOOK: Florida Hospital for Women
Founded in 1908 as a faith-based institution, Florida Hospital has grown statewide into 24 hospitals specializing in providing patients with whole-person care. With a renewed commitment to women’s services in central Florida, Florida Hospital Orlando is building a modern hospital that embodies a new era of advanced healthcare for women.
New Children’s Hospital To Be Built In Sweden
A new children’s hospital will be constructed adjacent to Queen Silvia Children's Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Understanding Aging To Create Senior-Friendly Healthcare Spaces
Evidence-based design research is largely associated with aspects of the built environment that support satisfaction and outcomes of the general patient population. But little information exists that’s tied to the very specific segment of the population age 65 and up.
That’s what the design team behind Yale-New Haven Hospital’s new Center for Restorative Care discovered when digging into available findings to help shape the senior-centered unit.
Design’s Place In The Retail Clinic Evolution
Despite retail clinics being dubbed a “disruptive innovation” in healthcare delivery, convenient care proponents say disruption wasn’t the goal.
“We never wanted to be a primary care provider; we wanted to be a complement to primary care,” Sarah Rosenberg, deputy executive director of the Convenient Care Association, said during the session “The Evolution of Convenient Care: Trends, Data, and Growth” at this month’s ASHE PDC Summit in San Antonio.
FIRST LOOK: Eastern Maine Medical Center Modernization Project
Bangor, Maine's Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) is the flagship medical center of Eastern Maine Health System. The EMMC modernization project, designed by MorrisSwitzer Environments for Health (Burlington, Vt.), is focused on creating opportunities for the hospital to adapt to emerging technology and modern procedures while accommodating increased demand on a limited footprint.
Healthcare Design Innovation Requires Leap Of Faith
Innovation requires risk; healthcare is a risk-averse industry. It’s an axiom that’s created a challenging climate for the healthcare design community—from the providers pursuing new projects to the architects who design them to the manufacturers whose products fill them—to push built environments forward.
