by Tracey Walker | Feb 6, 2024 | Trends
Healthcare Design’s annual Nightingale Awards program saw a banner year in 2023 with a record number 55 products entered. The annual competition recognizes contributions to the healthcare built environment through product design and innovation that promote...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 5, 2024 | News
East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, Ala. is adding a new freestanding mental health facility with inpatient and outpatient services, according to the website wtvm.com. The project will house 40 beds, with 20 designated for adult patients and 20 for children and...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 5, 2024 | News
OhioHealth (Columbus, Ohio) celebrated the completion of OhioHealth Pickerington Methodist Hospital in Pickerington, Ohio. The six-story, 220,000-square-foot hospital houses 96 inpatient beds with smart-room technology, six operating rooms (ORs), two procedure rooms,...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 5, 2024 | Projects
This article was originally published on February 5, 2024, and is among Healthcare Design’s most-read articles of 2024. To see a full list, click here. Abbott Northwestern Hospital Surgical and Critical Care Facility, Minneapolis Part of a 10-year campus improvement...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 2, 2024 | Trends
AJ Thomas is a healthcare sector leader — principal, at Corgan (Phoenix). In Healthcare Design’s Face Time Q+A, Thomas shares what lead him to a career in healthcare design, why it’s important to ask questions on projects, and what he considers his superpower trait....
by Tracey Walker | Feb 2, 2024 | News
Piedmont Healthcare (Atlanta) completed a 43,100-square-foot North Tower vertical expansion at Piedmont Cartersville hospital, in Cartersville, Ga. The $25 million project added two floors to the existing three-story tower. Specifically, the new fourth floor houses...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 2, 2024 | News
*This article has been updated with an extended deadline date. The Healthcare Design Conference + Expo opened its 2024 Call for Presentations for the event to be held Oct. 5-8 at Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. Devoted to how the design of built...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 2, 2024 | News
Mercy Health (Cincinnati) held a ribbon cutting at Mercy Health Kings Mills Hospital in Mason, Ohio. The new hospital includes an emergency department (ED), 60 patient rooms, four operating rooms (ORs), a catheterization laboratory, interventional radiology, and an...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 1, 2024 | Trends
Including comfortable and functional space for visitors to gather in a hospital patient room is a priority for many design teams, but actual evidence about the effects of these efforts, a new study posits, is hard to come by. Researchers in Denmark sought to address...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 1, 2024 | News
Global design, architecture, engineering, and planning firm HOK has developed the Pediatrics and Behavioral Health Centers of Expertise, which will serve as strategic extensions of HOK’s healthcare practice. The new specialized practices will provide resources,...
