by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Trends
If we pause and take time to reflect on what really matters in our day-to-day activities, then very different scenarios begin to emerge. Sometimes this realization occurs after major change strikes, and we experience epiphanies about the meaning of life. For The...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Trends
Project category: New construction (completed October 2001) Chief administrator: Kris Wyckoff, Administrator, (775) 770-7220 Firm: James Leary Planning/Douglas Childs Architect, (858) 695-0444 Design team: Simon Warner, AIA, Project Manager; James A. Leary, AIA, ACHA,...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Trends
The key design challenge was to add a five-story Ambulatory Care Center/Medical Office Building (MOB) and a five-story Parking Garage in an established neighborhood, while accommodating the growing needs of the Wilson N. Jones Medical Center. The MOB design provides a...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Trends
Project category: New construction (completed April 2001) Chief administrator: Mary A. Beck, Senior VP of Planning & Program Development, (919) 966-1129 Firm: HKS, Inc., (214) 969-5599 Design team: Glenn Corley, AIA, Principal (Corley, Redfoot, Zack, Inc.); Craig...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Trends
The client needed to build a cost-efficient project that met the stringent budgetary and design requirements set forth by Kaiser. Gordon H Chong & Partners provided programming, planning, and interior design for the new medical office building—the first to...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Trends
Project category: New construction (completed June 2002) Chief administrator: Steven Oster, Executive Director of Ambulatory Services, (203) 967-6194 Firm: TRO/The Ritchie Organization, (617) 969-9400 Design team: Robert W. Hoye, AIA, Project Executive, President;...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Trends
Adirondack Medical Center is located in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. The primary goals of this small acute care hospital were to provide a comfortable and familiar setting for regional folks, as well as to equip the hospital for future technologic...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Trends
Before designing Sentara CarePlex Hospital, we asked staff, doctors, and patients to tell us what features would make the care and the patients’ healthcare experience the best possible. We designed the hospital to support their answers. The hospital features a...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Trends
Mercy Hospital is a licensed, 284-bed community hospital that is part of the Alegent Health system, based in Omaha, Nebraska. In addition to acute care services, the hospital provides behavioral health services. The Mercy Hospital campus includes two medical office...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Trends
The Indiana Heart Hospital is not only Indiana’s first dedicated heart hospital to meet the growing needs of patients and their families, but a partnership with GE Medical Systems, making The Indiana Heart Hospital the world’s first paperless, filmless,...