Green value

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...

Flying free

Back in the 1980s, a number of art dealers, close friends of mine, died of AIDS. I spent time caring for them in the hospital and then, later, caring for both my parents in the hospital. Every so often I would need a break and would spend time in the cafeteria or by...

Seeing design from both sides of the coin

Mike Sherman doesn’t send the Green Bay Packers out without a game plan. Similarly, an experienced owner needs a “game plan” for a quality construction project. Preconstruction is the key play. Preconstruction is the arduous honing process of creating the...

Tanner Medical Center—Villa Rica VILLA RICA, GA

Using the image of a stork delivering a baby as its theme, Tanner Medical Center erected billboards throughout the town of Villa Rica, Georgia, to announce the arrival of its brand-new, 40-bed hospital for the community and its residents. The “special delivery”...

Chatham-Kent Health Alliance CHATHAM, ON

Project category: Addition (completed April 2004) Chief administrator: Ken Tremblay, President and CEO, (519) 352-6400 Firm: Dunlop Architects, Inc., (416) 596-6666 Design team: Norman Crone, Project Principal; Michael Moxam, Design Principal; George Bitsakakis,...

UPMC Shadyside Posner Tower PITTSBURGH, PA

High-tech/high-touch solutions at UPMC Shadyside Hospital’s new Posner Tower make the latest in medical practice available for curing patients while still providing caring approaches for the human spirit. The new 67,500-square-foot Posner Tower addition and...

Ross Memorial Hospital LINDSAY, ON

Project category: New construction (completed November 2003) Chief administrator: Tony Vines, Chief Executive Officer, (705) 324-6111 Firm: Parkin Architects, Ltd., (416) 467-8000 Design team: John Christie, Project Director, Architect; May Chow, Project Manager;...
Strategy & Planning Series
Strategy & Planning Series
Strategy & Planning Series
Strategy & Planning Series
Strategy & Planning Series
Strategy & Planning Series
Strategy & Planning Series
Strategy & Planning Series
Strategy & Planning Series
Strategy & Planning Series
Strategy & Planning Series