Televisions in waiting rooms
I was sitting in the waiting room of a doctor’s office yesterday waiting for an appointment. The room…
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ASID: Providing positive distractions during the patient wait experience
A typical patient arrives at a medical facility welcomed by a room filled with rows of chairs and…
News June 13Community Clinics: Reinvesting cost-savings into design
In my last post, I discussed how healthcare legislation and the emphasis on containing costs are offering new…
News June 10Thoughts from the AIA National Convention Part 1
This year’s AIA National Convention in sweltering Miami marks my first attendance at the show. While our focus…
News June 10Guidelines for building MOBs
They go by several names—MOBs, (medical office buildings), POBs (physicians office buildings), Ambulatory Services, or even Retail Medical—but…
News June 8ASID: Benefits and limitations of standardizing interior finishes
Anyone familiar with corporate “enterprise systems” has witnessed the benefit of companies sharing standard, commoditized, accounting, payroll, shipping/receiving,…
News June 6Questioning LEED certification
There was an op-ed last month in the New York Times that takes on the U.S. Green Building…
News June 6EBD versus designing for work flow
When scrolling through the HEALTHCARE DESIGN Twitter feed, I noticed a video posted by Karlsberger called “Capacity through…
News May 31ASID: Patient- or caregiver-centered design?
When talking about healthcare design, our focus most often is on the patient’s overall well being, and of…
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