by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 21, 2020 | Trends
As a healthcare architect and planner with a bent towards systemic thinking and innovation, I can’t help considering the long-term effects of the challenges currently impacting healthcare systems across the world and imagining how healthcare environments might change...
by Anne DiNardo | Apr 21, 2020 | Trends
Each day brings news of overwhelmed hospitals and medical staff at risk as they addresss the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, healthcare facilities at the center of rapid outbreaks must add capacity and adjust existing capacity. Facilities near outbreaks must...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 21, 2020 | News
It’s once again time to recognize the past year’s most influential people in healthcare design. Healthcare Design magazine’s 2020 HCD 10 awards program will honor professionals across 10 categories of nominees, shining a spotlight on the broad spectrum of stars in our...
by Tracey Walker | Apr 21, 2020 | News
Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital has unveiled its new $20 million expansion on the hospital’s fifth floor. The expansion was designed to provide additional space and enhance the quality of care for surgical patients. The project involved building out 42,000...
by Tracey Walker | Apr 20, 2020 | News
Jewett Orthopaedic Clinic and Orlando Health, both of Orlando, Fla., are planning a new 195,000-square-foot inpatient facility in Orlando for orthopedic patients. Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Hospital will offer 75 inpatient rooms, 20 operating suites, five...
by Anne DiNardo | Apr 17, 2020 | Trends
Around the world, health facilities are mobilizing to manage their assets to meet the anticipated increase of infectious patients associated with the spread of the COVID-19 virus. One of the overwhelming issues faced by healthcare facilities is the potential volume of...
by Anne DiNardo | Apr 17, 2020 | Trends
In March, as architecture firms across the country were beginning to anticipate future work-from-home mandates to support social distancing efforts to suppress the spread of COVID-19, HKS Inc. conducted a “stress test” of its IT system by having all employees work...
by Tracey Walker | Apr 17, 2020 | News
Peter Lougheed Centre, part of Alberta Health Services, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is constructing a temporary COVID-19 treatment center at the hospital. The project by Stantec (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), Sprung Structures (Aldersyde, Alberta, Canada), and CANA...
by Tracey Walker | Apr 17, 2020 | News
Boston Medical Center (BMC) in Boston has transformed its Newton Pavilion, shuttered since October 2018, into a temporary quarantine shelter for homeless patients in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 166,500-square-foot facility spans eight floors and has a...
by Anne DiNardo | Apr 16, 2020 | 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. Ellen Mitchell Kozack is vice president, chief sustainability officer, with Leo A Daly...
