by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Trends
The Louis Lasky Memorial Medical and Dental Center is the flagship facility for the National Organization of Industrial Trade Unions Insurance Trust Fund. The organization, which provides specialized medical and dental care to thousands of dues-paying members...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Trends
Located atop a 16-story hospital patient tower, the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Pavilion offers distinctive services and amenities to patients in the atmosphere of an elegant club or hotel. The Pavilion suite is a private, exclusive, and secure environment that can...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Uncategorized
Project category: Remodel/Renovation (completed December 2002) Chief administrator: Richard G. Smith, CEO, (315) 361-2300 Firm: Clark Patterson Associates, (585) 454-7600 Design team: Todd Liebert, Principal-in-Charge; Joe Hanss, Project Manager; Michelle Trott,...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Uncategorized
Seeking to create more modern and efficient facilities for Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC), LibertyHealth engaged the services of a joint venture design team to evaluate improvement options for its circa-1930s high-rise buildings. Originally designed to accommodate...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | News
The design team for the Center for Advanced Medicine started with the concept of the patient experience, initiated by the idea of arrival and wayfinding. Good wayfinding is particularly important within the outpatient environment because of the large number of...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | News
Situated on 21 acres in rural Winchester, Indiana, is St. Vincent Randolph Hospital, the first new freestanding hospital in Randolph County in more than 80 years, and one of only a handful of new hospitals built in the state in the last 20 years. This project was...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Uncategorized
When the Mayo Clinic’s 1.5-million-square-foot Gonda Building was dedicated in October 2001, officials of the Rochester, Minnesota, medical center were not only opening a new “front door” and lobby to the storied institution, but they were also ushering in a new...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | News
Designing a 60-bed facility for efficient expansion to 300 beds was the challenge facing the architects for The Villages Regional Hospital. The client projected the eventual expansion over the next 8 to 10 years. Many aspects—from minimizing demolition to sizing...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Uncategorized
The project was to transform the ground floor of a former nurses’ residence into a stimulating, 44-space licensed daycare for the children of hospital employees. Challenges were creating a safe, stimulating environment for children; reconciling extensive program...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2003 | Trends
Planetree was founded by a patient 25 years ago as a nonprofit organization to advocate for the patient’s perspective in healthcare. Planetree’s first demonstration site, opened in 1985, was a 13-bed medical-surgical unit in San Francisco, which brought...
