David Duff, senior vice president and director of China healthcare at VOA Associates Inc. (Chicago), compared Chinese and U.S. healthcare practices and design at The 3rd Summit Forum of Chinese and Overseas Hospital Architects, part of the 15th Hospital Build and Infrastructure China Exhibition and Congress held June 21 to 23 in Nanjing, China.
East Tennessee Children’s Hospital (ETCH) will open a new 245,000-square-foot surgery and NICU expansion in August 2016. The addition will house 152 beds, including a NICU, consolidated perioperative services, and new clinical exam rooms.
Once the expansion is complete, space freed in the existing hospital will be renovated to provide a unit that meets an urgent demand for neonatal abstinence syndrome infant care.
Lean, green, and team were topics for discussion by Craig Beale, executive vice president and global healthcare director for HKS (Dallas), in a presentation to attendees at The 3rd Summit Forum of Chinese and Overseas Hospital Architects, part of the 15th Hospital Build and Infrastructure China Exhibition and Congress held June 21 to 23 in Nanjing, China.
This year, 106 architecture/engineering and construction firms working in healthcare took part in Healthcare Design's Corporate Rankings Survey, providing both business results in 2013 and insight on where the healthcare design industry stands today.
This year, 106 architecture/engineering and construction firms working in healthcare took part in Healthcare Design's Corporate Rankings Survey, providing both business results in 2013 and insight on where the healthcare design industry stands today.
I was reminded recently of one piece of the planning and design process that can make or break any healthcare project: community buy-in.
Just a couple of weeks ago, two stories were in the news that illustrate the weight that not only public opinion but the decisions of local officials can have on whether projects get the green light. In this case, the two projects in question saw two radically different outcomes.
The design for the new Teck Acute Care Centre at BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, strives to deliver a patient- and family-centered healing environment that incorporates evidence-based design and Lean design elements to support a flexible, operationally
One of the very first blogs I wrote after joining Healthcare Design in 2010 was on healthcare reform and what it might mean for this industry—a topic that’s remained evergreen over the last few years, to say the least.
MaineGeneral Health is the amalgamation of a series of mergers over the years that’s created a system of acute care hospitals, outpatient facilities, and home care services in Maine’s Kennebec Valley. And when the time came for leadership to address two aging inpatient sites, its landscape was about to change again.
From an exterior marked by brightly colored glass designed to resemble butterfly wings to its single-patient rooms, the 450,000-square-foot expansion of Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del., will be a physical reflection of feedback received from patients and families during the design process.
Last week I attended the live judging for Healthcare Design’s annual Design Showcase, a special section that appears in our September issue—what I tend to view as a yearbook of what’s been moving and shaking in healthcare design over the past 12 months.
