Between the four of us, the editors of Healthcare Design keep a watchful eye on the healthcare front, scouring the news about new facilities, talking to our contacts in the field about pressing issues, conducting site visits, and noting trends as they ebb and flow. And there’s no end to the number of press releases and pitches we each receive every day, alerting us to new things on the horizon and anything we may have overlooked.
Dr. David Schuller
Vice president of medical center expansion and outreach for The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (Columbus, Ohio)
What a difference a year makes.
We can take a broad view of our industry, analyzing the political climate and cataloging trends and shifting consumer attitudes. And we can take a micro view, delving deep into very specific projects or the mind of one architect or facility planner or engineer. As we at Healthcare Design put together articles and conference sessions, we aim to do both, in order to cover as much ground as possible so our audience gets the full picture.
Available research on hospital healing gardens and outdoor spaces has indicated that despite several health benefits of access to nature for staff, patients, and family members, these amenities are not being used to their fullest capacity. Previous researchers have recommended design features such as comfortable seats and adequate shade to increase garden visitation in healthcare setting. However, no quantitative data have demonstrated significance of correlation between presence of these design features and garden use.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is recognized worldwide for its care, tending everyone from the very smallest of NICU patients up through twentysomething-aged survivors of pediatric cancers. This latter group is an interesting one—I hadn’t known that many such patients continue to see their pediatric oncologists well into adulthood. Dr. John P.
We media outlets do love our lists this time of year, don't we?
The MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper is a 103,000-square-foot, four-story, $100 million treatment center designed by Francis Cauffman. The project team also included owner’s representative Stantec and contractor P. Agnes; the facility opened in October 2013.
When William McDonough and Michael Braungart wrote the highly influential “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things” more than 10 years ago, it opened up a whole new way of thinking in terms of sustainable architecture and product design.
Temecula Valley Hospital in Temecula, Calif., is a 140-bed acute care hospital that was built based on Lean principles and an integrated project delivery (IPD) approach. Design began in April 2010, construction started in June 2011 and was completed in July 2012, and the facility started accepting patients in September 2013.
The 17 participants in my group introduced themselves by name, title, and company and shared a bit of what they hoped to get out of the conference that week. They were from all over the country, big hospitals and small—and there wasn’t an architect or designer in the bunch.
The 227,000-square foot T.J. Health Pavilion in Glasgow, Ky., is the result of a conversion of a former Walmart store and addition of a new, three-story medical office building. It houses outpatient services including a diagnostic imaging center, women’s health center, laboratory, urgent care, adult and pediatric rehabilitation therapy centers, dialysis center, and an integrated medical office building that houses primary care and specialty practices.
