Jennifer Silvis

While noting that healthcare construction has taken a “bit of a breather” in the last two years may be an understatement, a new report from consulting firm FMI also says the market will recover. And we're talking a double-digit recovery. 

Healthcare has always been at the forefront of major technological advances. Our innate desire to live longer, healthier, and more impactful lives coupled with the huge potential financial gains possible from a market segment that continues to regenerate itself has led to significant breakthroughs throughout time.

Apply evidence-based design principles to Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired architecture, and the result is the new 56,000-square-foot patient wing and surgery addition at Community Hospital in McCook, Nebraska.

Serving a modest population of 30,000 in eight surrounding southern Nebraskan and northern Kansas counties, the design is an unexpected yet delightful surprise in this rural prairie community.

The owners of The Summit would prefer that you not refer to it as a “senior center.”

In fact, that was the overarching message that Suzi Muszynski, interior designer for Brinkley Sargent Architects of Dallas, received from day one of the project. “They really wanted to explore the idea of an ‘adult activity center,’” she says, “to kind of squash that mentality of televisions and gray concrete walls.”

It’s not what you’d expect to find behind a storefront window, but that’s kind of the point. The Brooklyn Infusion Center, an outpost of New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, occupies a shotgun storefront building on the busy Atlantic Avenue corridor of downtown Brooklyn. The lobby features a gallery of artwork from local artists.

Living in Cleveland, I can’t help but be proud to associate myself with a city at the forefront of healthcare delivery.

Scratch the surface of a rural town and chances are the healthcare, employment, and community linchpin is the local hospital. However, a fundamental challenge causing many rural facilities to shut down is the lack of ready cash flow for new equipment, construction upgrades, or staff retention.

The mission behind hospice is both practical and optimistic, and the challenge for any interior designer is to match that mission with a deft touch. For the Bayt Abdullah Children’s Hospice (BACH) in Sulaibikhat, Kuwait, NBBJ was charged with creating just the right tone within a country teeming with wealth and opulent design.

The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) launched a new contest this year, the Healthcare Interior Design Competition, with the goal of recognizing original, relevant design within the walls of healing environments. And with more than 100 submissions from around the world, the jury had plenty to consider.