by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
For years Erminia (Mimi) Guarneri, MD, has, like Don Quixote, been battling windmills. Frustrated by the limitations of conventional medicine in keeping her cardiology patients from returning for yet another balloon angioplasty or stent, she knew there had to be a...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
Philosophy The guiding research and educational philosophy of Texas A&M University’s Architecture for Health program, which was established in 1966, is for its students and faculty to undertake actual case-study projects with clients who have real needs,...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
How often does one see a family tragedy transformed into a project aimed at uplifting the lives of thousands of children and their families? In Valhalla, New York (Westchester County), just such a project opened its doors last year. The Maria Fareri Children’s...
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
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 | 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...
