FIRST LOOK: Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center
Cleveland Clinic’s new cancer center will have a prominent location on the eastern edge of the Clinic’s 168 acre main campus in Cleveland. The 377,000-square-foot building will bring patient treatment programs together in one location to improve patient experience and outcomes. Multidisciplinary clinics will be at the heart of the care model.
2014: The Year Of The Patient
Every day, the editors of Healthcare Design strive to deliver the content you, our readers, need to do your jobs better and create truly healing environments.
Doing so requires exploration of the hottest topics, emerging trends, and latest projects in healthcare design—from all angles.
FIRST LOOK: University of Missouri-St. Louis Patient Care Center
In 2016, a vision at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) will unfold that advances the school’s goal of both improving education and enhancing the stability of the North St. Louis County community in which it is located.
Part of a more than $100 million investment to replace aging campus buildings, the $17 million Patient Care Center is the first phase of improvements to the Colleges of Optometry and Nursing.
Ambulatory Expansion: Best Practices And Common Pitfalls
There are few topics in healthcare right now that are as hot as the shift to ambulatory environments. Providers are focusing on more distributed networks that reach into communities to provide easily accessible care to patients and help answer population health mandates, and all at a lower cost to boot.
But exactly how this trend is translated to an organization’s master plan for facilities isn’t quite as clear.
FIRST LOOK: Fifth XiangYa Hospital
Arriving in Changsha, China, for the first time, one can’t mistake the city's embrace of its natural surroundings and love of nature. River parks dominate the landscape and urban blocks seamlessly flow into parks throughout the capital of China’s Hunan Province.
Provider Challenges Healthcare Designers To Conduct More Research
After four days packed with facility tours, workshops, educational sessions, and exhibit hall hours, attendees of the 2014 Healthcare Design Conference held in San Diego Nov. 15-18 were left with some inspiring last words—and a charge to action.
What Would Pediatric Patients Spend Their Design Dollars On?
When children were asked what they might like to see in a new expansion of the Nemours Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children in Delaware, FKP’s Diane Osan said, “They came up with some very creative things.”
Those ideas included a roller coaster and a swimming pool, for starters. But most of all, they asked for solutions that would make the building itself less scary and would better accommodate their families over what might be a long stay.
Designing Healthcare Buildings That Support Patient Wellness
The industry is in the midst of a shift to a wellness-focused model of care, with an eye on preventing illness rather than treating it.
Tour: Kaiser Permanente San Diego Central Hospital
What’s Next For Patient Room Design?
Long before healthcare reform ever pressed the need to rethink the way patient rooms are designed, NXT Health and executive director Salley Whitman recognized that the complexity of healthcare had resulted in a lack of innovation in our care environments.
Calling For Backup In The Patient Room
The patient room as we know it today has been greatly influenced by the field of evidence-based design (EBD), stemming back to 1984, when Roger S. Ulrich’s seminal study “View through a Window May Influence Recovery from Surgery” was first published in the journal Science.
