Oftentimes when embarking on a new healthcare facility project, square footage and adjacency requirements will drive programming and, subsequently, design. But things were a bit different when the team from ZGF Architects LLP (Seattle) partnered with Seattle Children’s Hospital for the project Building Hope: Cancer, Critical and Emergency Care Expansion.
Several years ago, I was an editor for a group of hospitality trade magazines. When our editorial team decided to dig into a trend report on how the Internet was affecting the hotel industry, I was tasked with writing an article about customer review websites like TripAdvisor.
David Ruthven, AIA
Co-lead and creative director, NXT Health (New York)
Carlos Gonzalez, PE
Project director, Clark/McCarthy, A Joint Venture (Costa Mesa, Calif.)
Back in 2012, Skanska’s Amy Mazzo wrote a great piece for our former sister pub Healthcare Building Ideas on the shifting landscape of emergency department care. At the time, EDs were faced with a challenging future: increasing demand coupled with diminishing profit margins.
Douglas Erickson, FASHE, CHFM, HFDP, CHC
President, TME Inc. (Little Rock, Ark.); CEO, Facility Guidelines Institute; Chair, FGI Health Guidelines Revision Committee
When we asked readers about the climate of the healthcare market in 2013 as part of Healthcare Design’s annual Corporate Rankings Survey, there were still a lot of unknowns. Respondents shared lingering questions on what the post-reform environment would bring—specifically, the impact it would have on healthcare organizations’ capital budgets and how that would trickle down to work (or lack of work) for A/E/C firms.
You may have noticed over the past year or so that we’ve been covering the design of behavioral health (BH) facilities with more frequency here at Healthcare Design. It’s not necessarily something we set out to do but instead happened rather organically.
As we hear the industry talk more about the design ramifications for these spaces, it’s given us plenty of paths to follow to explore the challenges of this particular healthcare setting and share some solutions with all of you.
Englewood, Colo.’s Craig Hospital needed an update.
Hospitals seeking to eliminate revenue losses while simultaneously boosting process efficiency and patient care levels are discovering the benefits of Lean design for their clinical and nonclinical departments.
Achieving a better patient experience and improved outcomes is the heart and soul of any healthcare construction project. But doing so on schedule and on (or under) budget usually ranks pretty high on an owner’s list of objectives, too.
This time of year always inspires lists. From “best of” to “most popular” to “top trends,” they each offer a quick, fun read. But if you step back, I think lists provide that 30,000-foot view that we all need from time to time.
In this case, I decided to check out what Healthcare Design’s most-read articles and blogs were in 2013 (of content published this year) to help paint a picture of where, as an industry, we’ve been and where we’re heading.
