by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
As promised in our September 2002 annual showcase issue, HEALTHCARE DESIGN has become a quarterly publication this year. You hold in your hands the initial result of a decision to publish three regular, magazine-style issues in addition to the annual September...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
Office work is a relatively large component of what takes place in healthcare settings. In addition to administrative offices, many office-type settings for input and retrieval of electronic and paper-based medical and financial information, telephone communication,...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
In designing anything as permanent as a new structure, planners want to be as sure as possible that the building will serve its users well for years and even decades to come. The feat of prognostication, always difficult, is even more so for healthcare, where...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
This well-known Chinese proverbactually it’s a Chinese curse, but as an optimist I prefer to think of it as a proverboften pops into my mind as I contemplate all that is going on in the world and in our own industry of healthcare design. We truly are living in...
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...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
In its design of a new outpatient clinical wing for the Naval Hospital Bremerton, the architectural design firm NBBJ wanted elements that evoked U.S. Navy symbols and traditions. NBBJ’s people had the idea to use fabric as light diffusers and partitions early...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
Located in the heart of the Crozer-Chester Medical Center and adjacent to the hospital’s main entrance, the new Cancer Center features its own entrance and a new enclosed walkway that connects to the hospital and two adjacent medical office buildings. The...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
Environmentalism has been around for decades, but only within the past few years have its tenets emerged in the building industry as “green,” or sustainable, design. A group called the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has established a green-building rating system,...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
Unfortunately, the above scenarios exemplify the paradox that exists on many nursing units in a variety of healthcare organizations across the country. The challenge is to design a nursing unit that not only positively influences the guest’s experience, but also...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2003 | Trends
In the early 1930s, the construction industry considered one death per $1 million spent on construction to be the norm. Worker fatalities, though undesirable, were an accepted corollary to doing business. Some of the workers who built our nation’s most treasured...
