The first thing you notice when you drive up to Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center is the huge, delicately latticed “Lantern of Hope” anchoring the top north corner of the building. Four stories high, the aluminum-clad feature covers a white fabric scrim.
As Superstorm Sandy pummels the East Coast, hospitals and other healthcare facilities are put to the ultimate test of disaster readiness. NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan had to evacuate all 215 of its patients after its backup power system failed on Monday night. Backup power also failed at Coney Island Hospital in southern Brooklyn—fortunately, critical patients had already been evacuated in advance of the storm, according to The New York Times.
Facey Medical Group’s new building is a 124,000-square-foot, multi-specialty medical office in Mission Hills, Calif. The group sought to consolidate several of its smaller regional clinics and offices into one technologically advanced, energy-efficient building.
Architect Derek Parker is a 50-year veteran of the healthcare design industry and co-founder of The Center for Health Design, which is honoring Parker with its Changemaker Award for 2012.
In putting together the article covering IIDA’s Healthcare Interior Design Competition this year, it was difficult not to get choked up. The winners' circle comprised a wellness center for seniors, a cancer-patient infusion clinic, and a children’s hospice. So at one end of the spectrum, you have an exuberant celebration of long life and continued health for the older generation.
San Francisco Surgical Arts (SFSA), a new oral and maxillofacial surgical facility in downtown San Francisco, offers routine oral surgical services as well as advanced facial reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. In 2012, SFSA became the first facility of its kind to achieve LEED Platinum certification, the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest level of green building certification under LEED Commercial Interiors (CI) v2009 rating system.
Architect Chris Downey lost his sight unexpectedly after a surgery in 2008. He’s continued his practice, though, with a focus on designing for the visually impaired and on making buildings more accessible for everyone.
The Robert and Margaret Hill Breast Center, located in the Baptist Outpatient Center in Jacksonville, Florida, was designed to enhance the patient and customer experience by utilizing hospitality and retail design strategies.
When Sanford Health set out to open a new regional medical center in the heart of South Dakota, the mission was to construct a state-of-the-art facility centered on the patients and their families that didn’t feel institutional.
Sanford Health worked with Hoefer Wysocki Architects to deliver on that goal, opening the doors of Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center on July 16, 2012.
Advocate BroMenn Regional Medical Center (Normal, Ill.) is a 224-bed community hospital serving central Illinois, with inpatient services on the Advocate BroMenn Medical Center campus and outpatient services located throughout the region.
Interactive workshops at conferences are an ideal way to network, and as I mentioned in my last blog, the Institute for Patient-Centered Design is presenting one at this year’s HEALTHCARE DESIGN Conference.
Council Bluffs, Iowa-based Alegent Creighton Health Mercy Hospital worked with the local office of architecture firm Schemmer Associates to design a 6,500-sq.-ft. healing garden (completed in fall 2011). Funded by private donations, the $200,000 garden is located near the hospital’s ICU and chapel.
