From healthcare reform to maintaining business solvency, the panel of experts that took the stage Tuesday morning at HEALTHCARE DESIGN.11 covered it all during the general session “New Directions in the Future of Healthcare Design—The Experts Speak Out.”
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“Green”—over the years, this now-ubiquitous word has been woven into the fabric of both our professional and home lives. And when the goal of sustainability enters the healthcare landscape, a key metric to achieving it is found not only in the actions of patients, staff, and visitors, but in the building that surrounds them. The actual structure and design of a facility plays a significant role in that facility’s ability to be green.
For the first time at the HEALTHCARE DESIGN conference, some of the biggest names in the industry will be together on stage to share their unique views on trends in healthcare design and the effects those trends have on the professionals who design and build healthcare facilities.
The HEALTHCARE DESIGN.11 conference kicked off Monday with a full day of educational sessions, exhibit hall hours, awards presentations, and a keynote presentation by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, vice provost for global initiatives and Levy University professor at University of Pennsylvania, who shared his thoughts on healthcare reform and its subsequent effect on the future of healthcare design.
Acoustics are the norm in a concert hall or workplace environment, but in healthcare facilities, the norm becomes much more complicated.
With 1,200 locations, 16,500 beds, and 20 million outpatient visits each year, Ascension Health spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually on capital improvements.
However, despite its size, there had previously been no structure in place to streamline projects or establish design standards across the health system. In fact, the severity of the shortcoming was evident in two projects being built about 15 miles apart from one another in the Detroit area, with two separate architects and two separate contractors.
The HEALTHCARE DESIGN.11 conference kicked off Monday with a full day of educational sessions, exhibit hall hours, awards presentations, and a keynote presentation by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, vice provost for global initiatives and Levy University professor at University of Pennsylvania, who shared his thoughts on healthcare reform and its subsequent effect on the future of healthcare design.
Acoustics are the norm in a concert hall or workplace environment, but in healthcare facilities, the norm becomes much more complicated.
With 1,200 locations, 16,500 beds, and 20 million outpatient visits each year, Ascension Health spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually on capital improvements.
The Healthcare Building Ideas/HEALTHCARE DESIGN Editorial team has arrived in Nashville for the HEALTHCARE DESIGN.11 conference taking place this week at the
It’s impossible to forget what the HEALTHCARE DESIGN conference is all about, thanks in particular to one component of the annual conference—the facility tours. Each year, as attendees begin descending upon the event locale, and before the main events kick off, the shuttle buses arrive and hundreds are taken to local hospitals and healthcare facilities to see what that year’s community has to offer.
HCD.11 Facility Tour: The Changing Faces of Two Vanderbilt Facilities
