by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2004 | News
Can a building and its technologies be a “practitioner of medicine”? Can they bridge the political, personal, cultural, economic, and distance divide that has contributed to the isolation of Indian and Native peoples from modern medical care? The recently opened...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2004 | News
PROJECT SUMMARY Client: The Center for Discovery Architecture: Guenther 5 Architects, PLLC General Contractor: Storm King Contracting, Inc. Structural Engineering: Dunne & Markis MEP Engineering: Lilker Associates Consulting Engineers, PC NYSERDA’s MEP...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2004 | News
You might have had the experience of going to a beautiful restaurant and having terrible service. What did you tell your friends about the restaurant? Excellent healthcare can be provided in the most depressing surroundings—and the patient will remember the excellent...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2004 | News
Master planning is a process that is comprehensive (if conducted properly), time-consuming, and requires soul-searching in determining a “vision” for the future of a hospital or a multihospital organization. It is also a process that has been undergoing significant...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2004 | Trends
When the arts draw from one another for inspiration and concepts, it is said that the artists have adopted a new “vocabulary.” A couple of pop-culture examples: MTV’s fast-paced music videos use the cinematic vocabulary established by director Richard Lester in...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2004 | News
When the Georgia Institute of Tech-nology elected to demolish its old student health center and build a new one, Lord, Aeck & Sargent architects Howard S. Wertheimer, AIA, LEED™ and James Nicolow, AIA, LEED™ knew that Georgia Tech had one overriding requirement:...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2004 | Uncategorized
I recently attended a black-tie hospital fund-raising dinner where the guest donations totaled about $100,000. During dinner I told a story of how I had just found $200,000 worth of energy savings in three hours at a nearby hospital. One of the dinner guests commented...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2004 | News
In the May 2004 issue of HEALTHCARE DESIGN (“Lessons From Both Sides of the Pond,” pp. 23-28), Derek Parker wrote about the similarities and differences between healthcare architecture in the United States and the United Kingdom. In this issue and one to follow, we...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2004 | News
Direct-Indirect Luminaires Corelite™/Cooper Lighting offers the Corelite Navigator Series—three distinct modular architectural fluorescent luminaires with an array of optical-control features for complex direct-indirect applications requiring energy-efficient ambient...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 1, 2004 | News
What is value to a healthcare institution? Value is providing quality healthcare services to your patients at a competitive, fair price. It is respecting your employees and providing them with a safe and healthy workplace. Value is serving your community without being...
