by Tracey Walker | Apr 10, 2020 | Projects
Royal Melbourne Hospital in Parkville, Victoria, Australia, had been delivering stroke care in an aging hospital ward with semiprivate rooms and decentralized care services that weren’t up to today’s standards. Furthermore, the space didn’t provide the right setting...
by Tracey Walker | Apr 9, 2020 | News
A series of reports by Dallas-based architecture firm HKS looks at ways to transform hotels and schools into hospitals in two weeks. In its “COVID-19 Conversions” series, HKS examined how to convert and repurpose existing hotels and schools for extra patient care...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 9, 2020 | Trends
The healthcare design industry is on the front lines of the COVID-19 outbreak, responding to myriad needs tied to the built environment to ensure patients can be tested and treated effectively. Healthcare Design turned to its esteemed Editorial Advisory Board members...
by Anne DiNardo | Apr 9, 2020 | Trends
In less than seven days last month, Mike Wood, vice president of construction at Medxcel, a facilities management firm (Indianapolis), said his organization went from wondering if COVID-19 was something the organization needed to address to setting up a 50-station...
by Tracey Walker | Apr 8, 2020 | Trends
For years I’ve watched the news coming out of the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to see what’s new and cool and what might eventually make its way into my world (I’ve never met a television that was too big). Given the growing focus on consumer health...
by Anne DiNardo | Apr 8, 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. Kimberly Lamb is executive director, healthcare solutions, at JLL, a real estate services firm...
by Tracey Walker | Apr 8, 2020 | News
North America’s largest convention center, Chicago’s McCormick Place, is set to transform into a COVID-19 field hospital with 3,000 beds. Walsh Construction (Chicago) is leading the conversion, which is expected to be completed by the end of April. Hundreds of...
by Tracey Walker | Apr 8, 2020 | News
As the need for temporary hospital sites grows amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an American Institute of Architects (AIA) task force is providing a new tool for public officials who are not healthcare design experts to quickly identify buildings suitable to be adapted for...
by Tracey Walker | Apr 7, 2020 | Projects
Patients being treated at the University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience Institute may encounter several obstacles on their way to an appointment. For example, many patients rely on walkers or wheelchairs to get around, which makes navigating ramps, doorways, and...
by Tracey Walker | Apr 7, 2020 | News
Marcus Tower at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, which was slated to open late this summer, is on track to open almost four months early to help address the COVID-19 pandemic. If needed, three intensive care unit (ICU) and acute nursing units on the 6th, 7th, and 8th...
