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2026 Healthcare Design A/E/C Survey: Design and Construction Trends—Part 1
Findings from Healthcare Design’s 2026 A/E/C Survey reveal how healthcare organizations are navigating financial pressures, rising construction costs, and staffing shortages while prioritizing facility renovations and outpatient expansion.
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Creating Healthcare Environments That Improve Health
At the 2014 Healthcare Design Conference in November, an American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA) presentation by Dr. Richard Jackson of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health really resonated.
Trends January 5How Pre-Occupancy Research Can Shape Effective Design Solutions
In this final installment of a three-part discussion on research, I’ll share how pre-occupancy research tools were used to establish design criteria for an inpatient floor build-out at a major…
Trends December 30Moving VA Healthcare Forward
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more beleaguered Cabinet-level agency in 2014 than the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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