2012 Elections: What Does it Mean for Healthcare Reform?

    Though the election results have not provided instant clarity to the healthcare reform issue, a light at the…

2012 Elections: President Obama wins, Balance of Congress Retained

Voters returned President Obama to the White House, overcoming a resistance to his agenda by Congressional Republicans, an…

Outpatient Operations: Putting the Patient First at Northwestern Memorial

In 2009, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare recognized that healthcare reform was coming down the pike and with it the…

HAIs Linked to Design Features and Materials

Emerging results from a large study focused on the relationships between design and healthcare-associated infections (HAI) point to…

The Network for Improving the Healthcare Built Environment

Penn Medicine Considers Big Med

 What do The Cheesecake Factory and the University of Pennsylvania Health System have in common? It was a…

Two Emergency Departments, Many Lessons Learned

In “Lessons Learned from Two Emergency Departments,” a session at the 2012 HEALTHCARE DESIGN Conference, Kathy Bell from…

Conference Attendees Preview Energy Benchmarking Results

Preliminary results of the Benchmarking 2.0 Report for Health Care Facilities from the IFMA Health Care Institute, American…

Parker Inspires Progress in Healthcare Design

When The Center for Health Design (CHD) created its Changemaker award, the intent was to recognize those who…