by Tracey Walker | Sep 3, 2020 | News
RDG Planning & Design has hired Will Downing as a design leader at its office in Iowa City, Iowa. Downing will focus on work for the firm’s healthcare studio. He brings more than 27 years of experience to the firm and is an American College of Healthcare...
by Tracey Walker | Sep 3, 2020 | Trends
In this column, Healthcare Design asks design professionals to share a recent project their firm has completed for another sector that might inspire similar solutions in healthcare. Here, Sharron van der Meulen, interior designer and partner at ZGF Architects...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 2, 2020 | Trends
Creating inpatient care units focused on visitor comfort, staff satisfaction, and efficiency are just a few of the ideas that must be incorporated into any hospital design. These sometimes divergent priorities alone could have any project design team spiraling into...
by Elana Ben-Tor | Sep 2, 2020 | Featured Firms Projects
AWARD OF MERIT – 2020 Healthcare Design Showcase The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital and Pearl Tourville Women’s Pavilion is a 10-story, 250-bed patient tower with adjacent four-story D&T podium that has transformed...
by Tracey Walker | Sep 2, 2020 | News
Not-for-profit Lakeland Regional Health’s Center for Behavioral Health & Wellness will resume development in Lakeland, Fla., after temporarily being put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The facility will offer emergency stabilization, substance abuse, memory...
by Tracey Walker | Sep 2, 2020 | News
MarinHealth held a virtual ribbon cutting to commemorate the opening of its $535 million replacement hospital in Greenbrae, Calif., according to an article in North Bay Business Journal. The new 260,000-square-foot Oak Pavilion at MarinHealth Medical Center features...
by Tracey Walker | Sep 2, 2020 | Trends
In November 1999, the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) published the landmark report “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Healthcare System.” The title hearkens back to the notion that to make a mistake is part of the human condition. Yet what the book actually shines a...
by Elana Ben-Tor | Sep 1, 2020 | Featured Firms Projects
HONORABLE MENTION – 2020 Healthcare Design Showcase Essentia Health’s Vision Northland will invest in the future of Duluth, Minn. Located on the bluffs above Lake Superior’s western shore, Essentia’s new flagship hospital will streamline health services, redefine the...
by Tracey Walker | Sep 1, 2020 | Trends
We’re all continuing to adjust our lives in response to COVID-19, making incremental changes to resume some sense of normalcy during a time that’s anything but normal. And it’s important to look for silver linings, wherever they might be. For me, one is that I already...
by Tracey Walker | Aug 31, 2020 | News
Community hospital Hartford HealthCare (Torrington, Conn.) and Charlotte Hungerford Hospital (Torrington) are nearing completion of a new healthcare center in Winsted, Conn., according to an article in the Register Citizen. The 30,000-square-foot project, Hartford...
