by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2005 | News
The new 15-story Patient Tower at Florida Hospital Orlando incorporates the vision, practice, and people of Florida Hospital. It capitalizes on the healing environment created by its proximity to Lake Estelle, providing optimal views for patients, family, and staff....
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2005 | Uncategorized
Through the artful interweaving of high-touch elements with a comprehensive menu of services, the William J. and Marian H. Busse Center for Specialty Medicine on the Northwest Community Hospital campus sets the tone for achieving measurably improved outcomes. The...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2005 | News
Project category: Addition (completed January 2005) Chief administrator: Tom Schonberg, Chief Executive Officer, (613) 721-4700 Firm: Parkin Architects Limited, (416) 467-8000 Design team: Darrell Doucette, former Project Manager; Bill Baldwin, Manager of Planning and...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2005 | News
Project category: New construction & Remodel/Renovation (completed July 2004)Chief administrator: R. John Harris, Chief Executive Officer, (972) 412-2273Firm: Sterling Barnett Little, Inc., (817) 461-1352Design team: Kellee D. Bowers, AIA, Project Manager; Kellye...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2005 | Uncategorized
Project category: New construction (completed March 2005) Chief administrator: Robert McFarlane, Principal, Trammell Crow Company, (214) 979-6100 Firm: Ascension Group Architects, (817) 226-1917 Design team: David Tooley, Principal-in-Charge (Ascension Group...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2005 | Uncategorized
Maggie Keswick Jencks couldn’t have said it better than that. Diagnosed with cancer in 1988, she asked herself many questions, including “How am I going to deal with this?” and “What are the questions that I should have asked my doctor but didn’t?” She...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2005 | News
When Virginia Hospital Center Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery John Garrett, MD, envisioned a replacement cardiac care hospital in the already hospital-rich environs of Washington, D.C., he was looking to break the...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2005 | News
No one expected the bamboo to grow so…fast. The shoots were purchased early in the construction phase of the project, and by the time they were ready to be installed in the healing garden on the upper floors, workers had to bend them into the “megavators” for...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2005 | Trends
Experienced readers of HEALTHCARE DESIGN know that every September we publish what is known as our Architectural Showcase issue, a colorful compendium of the latest and greatest built projects in the acute care realm. This September’s will be a barn burner—a...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2005 | Trends
What does value engineering mean? Almost everyone in the healthcare design and construction industry has faced the problem of the over-budget project (often the result of having too many wants and too small a wallet). The most common solution is to “value engineer.”...
