by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2003 | Trends
Imagine walking into a hospital looking for a surgical suite visitors’ lounge, only to be confused by the maze of corridors and signs pointing in various directions, and then noticing a computer kiosk with a sign saying “Find Your Way.” Hitting any key calls up...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2003 | News
When The Indiana Heart Hospital opened re-cently, what has been considered the hospital of the future officially became part of the present. As the first all-digital cardiovascular hospital in the nation, the $60 million, 88-bed facility im-plements an advanced...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2003 | News
Nearly everyone who has seen the popular TV series ER thinks he or she knows what a typical emergency room looks like: doctors scurrying around (and sometimes on) crash carts, people bumping into each other and into various pieces of equipment scattered about...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2003 | Trends
Two years ago, a coworker and I decided that to provide the most effective design strategies for our healthcare provider clients, we needed to better understand the needs of their clients-the patients who are the actual patrons of the facilities. My colleague, Steve...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2003 | Trends
Among the worst sounds a construction manager can hear is that deep breath, followed by a whistle, that emerges after clients see the bids that come in. If clients aren’t prepared for this, the construction manager has not done his most important job:...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2003 | Trends
This year has seen the opening of the Brenner Children’s Hospital, a six-story vertical expansion of Wake Forest University’s Baptist Medical Center. Offering many features to enhance children’s experience in visiting and receiving treatment at the...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2003 | Trends
The term “healing garden” brings up a variety of images for most people. The understanding that gardens can support the healing process has gained widespread endorsement over the past decade. Experts who have published articles in research journals and who have...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2003 | Trends
“Design a state-of-the-art faculty dental practice with the ambience of a Ritz-Carlton Hotel”-that was the dictate of Harold Slavkin, DDS, the new dean of the University of Southern California School of Dentistry. Lured from his position as director of the National...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
10. “Green” building is a passing fad. Locating buildings to take advantage of solar orientation, prevailing breezes, and natural features, while using locally available natural materials, are “green-building principles” that have been practiced for centuries....
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
Feeling as though we had inadvertently wandered onto a TV stage set for ER, a contingent of 15 architects from Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott (SBRA), primarily members of the firm’s Healthcare Practice Group, recently explored the real-life setting of an...
