Preliminary results of the Benchmarking 2.0 Report for Health Care Facilities from the IFMA Health Care Institute, American Society for Healthcare Engineering, and the Canadian Healthcare Engineering Society offered a glimpse to attendees of what’s to come when the survey is complete.
When The Center for Health Design (CHD) created its Changemaker award, the intent was to recognize those who “go beyond the status quo and change the way we think about healthcare design,” Roz Cama, CHD board chair, said in her introduction of this year’s Chagemaker at the HEALTHCARE DESIGN Conference in Phoenix.
As the HEALTHCARE DESIGN Conference celebrated the kickoff of its 10th year with close to 4,000 attendees at the Phoenix Convention Center, opening remarks stayed focused on the present—most notably the tumultuous business environment for designers and architects as well as healthcare in general.
Three years ago, Langlade Hospital in Antigo, Wisc., set out to construct a new critical access hospital, responding to not only the pressing need to replace its existing Hill-Burton-era building with a new facility but also to create a care environment that would be primed for the future of value-based care and heightened accountability for providers.
“We knew it was coming, and we knew this facility didn’t position us well for some of the challenges we’d be facing,” Schneider says.
With changing care delivery models and an industry-wide push for single-bed patient rooms, building projects are inevitable for most healthcare systems and hospitals. But finding the best value in renovations or expansion versus greenfield construction isn’t always as cut and dry.
If you’ve seen photos of Phoenix Children’s Hospital’s new patient tower, it’s tough not to be immediately drawn into its bold use of color, undulating lines, and sparkling finishes.
And walking through it only solidifies the effect. Those design elements, along with a number of other creative touches, together create a cohesive care environment that’s smart and purposeful in its flair without being overly themed.
In 2007, the Military Health System (MHS) published its report “Evidence-Based Design: Application at the MHS,” signaling a new focus on patient-centered design that improves patient outcomes and staff satisfaction. Until then, military healthcare architecture hadn’t exactly earned a reputation for innovative design. By its own estimation, many of the MHS’s hospitals were “austere but adequate.”
It began over a breakfast meeting between two CEOs. Texas Children’s Hospital had a longstanding partnership with St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, a neighbor on the massive Texas Medical Center campus in Houston. In essence, Texas Children’s took care of the babies born to the female patients of St. Luke’s.
As superstorm Sandy continued to pound the East Coast and move its way well inland on Tuesday, Oct. 30, the nation awoke on Wednesday to scenes of its aftermath.
In New York, tunnels remain flooded and the subway system shuttered while in New Jersey fires raged in one area while sand enveloped another. The devastation can be seen further west in hard-hit West Virginia and even into my home town of Cleveland, where trees are down, streets are flooded, and tens of thousands are left without power.
The fact that the new Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is the tallest children’s hospital in the world is no accident; it’s a necessity.
Health economics, care delivery, and buildings of the future were each top of mind to the more than 40 CEOs, owners, designers, and management consultants who offered a take on the future of healthcare in a recent industry survey.
Along the picturesque southern shore of Back Bay in the city of Biloxi, Miss., is an expansive complex of buildings organized in a campus-like setting on more than 100 acres of land: the VA Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System (GCVHCS).
Since the 1930s, the GCVHCS, which comprised the Biloxi VA Medical Center and the Gulfport VA Medical Center, provided primary and secondary medical, surgical, and long-term care services to more than 60,000 veterans along the Alabama and Mississippi Gulf Coast, and the Florida Panhandle.
