by Tracey Walker | Nov 10, 2021 | News
Multidisciplinary architecture and engineering firm Goodwyn Mills Cawood (GMC; Montgomery, Ala.) is opening a New Orleans office that will initially focus on the healthcare sector. Healthcare architect Steve Ritten has been named office leader of the new location. He...
by Tracey Walker | Nov 10, 2021 | News
Amsterdam UMC is renovating the patient room towers at its medical center campus in Amsterdam. The 247,569-square-foot phased project includes the modernization of 18 departments, including a new neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with couplet care rooms. The project...
by Tracey Walker | Nov 9, 2021 | News
Every Child’s Hope (ECH), a St. Louis-based child services organization, held a groundbreaking ceremony for its short-term residential treatment facility on its St. Louis campus. The 18,000-square-foot William N. Dill Youth Development Center will include 30 private...
by Tracey Walker | Nov 9, 2021 | News
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented emotional and physical stress on healthcare staff, bringing the need for restorative staff break areas in healthcare facilities to the forefront, according to speakers at the 2021 HCD Expo in Cleveland, during the session...
by Tracey Walker | Nov 9, 2021 | Trends
In this series, Healthcare Design asks leading healthcare design professionals, firms, and owners to tell us what’s got their attention and share some ideas on the subject. Kyle Basilius is a senior associate and healthcare planner at Parkin Architects (Vancouver,...
by Tracey Walker | Nov 9, 2021 | Trends
Through our annual Touchstone Awards, The Center for Health Design recognizes the exemplary use of an evidence-based design (EBD) process in an array of built environments. This program focuses on achievements in three areas of the EBD process: collaboration,...
by Tracey Walker | Nov 8, 2021 | News
Architecture and design firm NBBJ (Seattle) has achieved CarbonNeutral company certification by Natural Capital Partners, in accordance with The CarbonNeutral Protocol, which is a leading global framework for carbon neutrality. The firm also committed to a 50 percent...
by Tracey Walker | Nov 8, 2021 | Projects
In June 2021, Steward Health Care Melbourne Regional Medical Center (MRMC) opened its doors to a 42,000-square-foot expansion that creates a Spinal & Orthopedic Surgical Center of Excellence in Melbourne, Fla. The project enables MRMC to perform complex procedures...
by Tracey Walker | Nov 8, 2021 | News
Real estate investment management firm Seavest Healthcare Properties (White Plains, N.Y.) has opened an ambulatory care facility in Bethpage, N.Y. The three-story 54,000-square-foot NYU Langone Ambulatory Care includes primary and specialty care services. The project...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 5, 2021 | News
“It’s craziness but this stuff is really happening,” said Gary Collins, senior director, healthcare at Virtual Energy Solutions, after showing news accounts and video clips of staff assaults at healthcare facilities to attendees at the 2021 Healthcare Design Expo...