by Tracey Walker | Mar 27, 2020 | News
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has information and resources that apply to crisis and emergency situations, like COVID-19, for healthcare facilities, first responders, and authorities having jurisdiction that apply to crisis situations. The set of...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 27, 2020 | News
TLC Engineering Solutions (Brentwood, Tenn.) is sharing a presentation with the industry to offer guidance on COVID-19 and how it might be transmitted as well as an action plan for facility operators. “Healthcare facility plant operations and maintenance directors and...
by Tracey Walker | Mar 27, 2020 | News
Penn State Health, in Hershey, Pa., is planning construction on Lancaster Medical Center, a new acute care hospital in Lancaster County, Pa., according to an article in Becker’s Hospital Review. The five-story, 341,000-square-foot hospital will offer 129 private...
by Tracey Walker | Mar 27, 2020 | News
Array Architects has appointed three presidents to lead each of the firm’s service areas: architects, advisors, and analytics. As part of the changes, Noah Tolson has been named president of Array Architects; Jonathan Bykowski has been named president of Array...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 26, 2020 | Trends
As a practicing emergency physician and designer, I straddle the world of healthcare in a way few others do. One day my Kahler Slater colleagues and I are helping a client to solve a vexing design challenge. The next day, I’m at the bedside working with a team...
by Tracey Walker | Mar 26, 2020 | News
Five local healthcare facilities in western Minnesota are partnering to turn a vacant prison in Appleton, Minn., into the Tri-County COVID Medical Center, according to the West Central Tribune. The facility is slated to open on March 30. “For us, especially out here...
by Tracey Walker | Mar 26, 2020 | News
Over the next decade, UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, Calif., plans to invest $1.9 billion in expansion and renovation projects, according to the Sacramento Business Journal. The project development plan includes a 1.15-million-square-foot addition for a...
by Tracey Walker | Mar 26, 2020 | News
The International WELL Building Institute has assembled a task force aimed to reduce the health burden from COVID-19 and other respiratory infections by mining scientific literature to identify enhanced opportunities for the built environment to improve population...
by Tracey Walker | Mar 25, 2020 | News
The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan is being transformed into a makeshift hospital in order to help contain COVID-19 cases in the city, according to an article in Bloomberg. Four separate 40,000-square-foot hospitals will be built on the center’s main...
by Anne DiNardo | Mar 25, 2020 | Trends
Emergency departments (ED) in the United States are experiencing high patient volumes, particularly with winter seasonal peaks. In addition to the resulting limited capacity to accommodate surges in demand, most EDs are poorly designed to protect staff, other...
