by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2005 | News
“What? How can you even suggest that we need additional beds! We are only operating at 65% occupancy. The Board will think I'm crazy to even think about increasing our bed capacity, given such a low overall occupancy rate,” says the anonymous...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2005 | News
1 Wood-grain vinyl flooring Naturelife™ heterogeneous sheet vinyl replicates the warmth and appeal of natural hardwood. Available in 25 “embossed in register,” realistic wood grains, it is antimicrobial, antibacterial, and highly resistant to staining. The 4-ply...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2005 | News
Several doctors might visit a patient in the same hospital, and if they recommend different medications without consulting each other, they might waste the patient’s time and money and, worse yet, jeopardize his or her health. A healthcare facility under...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2005 | News
When I was in high school, I enrolled in an art school but, at the last minute decided I wanted to go into medicine instead. Today, as a family practice physician and fine artist, I’ve been lucky enough to combine both of my life’s passions into two...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2005 | News
Project Summary Project Name: Claire Tow Pediatric Day Hospital Architecture: Granary Associates Project Team: John J. Cummiskey, Principal-in-Charge; Mahmoud Mehrabian, AIA, Project Executive; Pierre Trombert, Design Director; James D. May III, Project Architect;...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2005 | News
The goals of many healthcare facility upgrades, expansions, and renovations in the Interior Health Authority of British Columbia, Canada, are much the same as elsewhere: to improve the quality and delivery of care, increase staff recruitment and retention, and...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
Before the first meaningful design concept hits the drawing board, project planners and programmers set the rules of the game. How will the facility be organized? What are the goals, and how are they to be prioritized? How will designers obtain information, and from...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | Trends
In the healthcare design world, we are living in what a Chinese philosopher once called “interesting times”—and pronounced them a “curse.” There is no question that “interesting times” are characterized by a host of new ideas, of new ways of doing things. And the...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
In 1991 I began creating what I call Solar Spectrum Environmental Artworks, using prisms and mirrors to harness the sun’s power to create rainbows in architectural spaces where people live and work. Four years later I asked the great American scientist Dr. Jonas...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
When a renowned children’s hospital seeks to expand its market, it shouldn’t be surprising when it does so in spectacular fashion. The Seattle-based Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center was already well established in the...
