by Tracey Walker | Oct 15, 2020 | News
Hasbro Children’s Hospital (Providence, R.I.), part of the Lifespan (Providence) healthcare system, has completed a new healing garden and playground. Located outside the hospital’s lower level, the 29,000-square-foot Balise Healing Garden features a raised-bed...
by Tracey Walker | Oct 15, 2020 | News
Reeves County Hospital District (Pecos, Texas) and construction firm Robins & Morton (Dallas) celebrated the topping out of a new replacement hospital in Pecos. The $115 million, 140,000-square-foot Reeves County Hospital will include 25 private inpatient beds, a...
by Anne DiNardo | Oct 14, 2020 | Trends
Many healthcare systems today rely on facility prototypes to deliver faster, more efficient new building projects. The complexity of modern hospitals is a driving factor in this trend. When difficult design challenges are addressed and resolved in one project, the...
by Tracey Walker | Oct 14, 2020 | News
Perkins Eastman and insurance broker RSA Real Estate (Guayaquil and Quito, Ecuador) are planning a medical city with healthcare facilities and a senior living community in Samborondon, Ecuador. The site will house a 86-bed hospital, two 55,000-square-foot medical...
by Tracey Walker | Oct 14, 2020 | Trends
Having spent his 20-year career in healthcare design and at EYP Architecture & Engineering, as well as serving as past president of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health, Tushar Gupta now balances dual roles in management and design. As managing principal,...
by Tracey Walker | Oct 14, 2020 | News
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) (Washington, D.C.) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) has recognized eight projects with its 2020 Healthcare Design Awards. The annual awards program recognizes cutting-edge designs that help solve aesthetic, civic,...
by Tracey Walker | Oct 13, 2020 | Trends
Orlando Health is a $3.8 billion not-for-profit healthcare organization and home to the region’s only Level One Trauma Center for adults and pediatrics. In June 2019, the health system contracted with Barton Malow (Orlando, Fla.), which served as the general...
by Anne DiNardo | Oct 13, 2020 | News, Trends
HCD Virtual will be held Nov. 9-12 and offer a variety of keynote and breakout sessions delivered over four days. Healthcare Design is previewing some of the upcoming educational sessions in a series of Q+As with speakers, sharing what they plan to discuss and key...
by Tracey Walker | Oct 13, 2020 | News
Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas (Encinitas, Calif.) is planning a new acute-care hospital tower and pulmonary institute, according to an article in 7 San Diego. The three-story, 224,000-square-foot Lusardi Tower will feature 64 inpatient beds and the Lusardi...
by Tracey Walker | Oct 13, 2020 | News
Health system University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health (Bel Air, Md.) is planning to build a free-standing medical center and psychiatric hospital in Aberdeen, Md., as well to expand its Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, according to an article in the...
