by Tracey Walker | May 28, 2020 | News
After continuous monitoring and careful consideration of the most recent information provided about the coronavirus by the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization, The WELL Conference has been canceled for 2020. The inaugural event was originally...
by Tracey Walker | May 28, 2020 | Projects
Serving 34 counties in southern and central Wisconsin, UnityPoint Health-Meriter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry provides both inpatient and outpatient community-based psychiatric services for children, ages 6-18. The recent multiphase renovation and expansion...
by Tracey Walker | May 28, 2020 | Trends
According to a Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll conducted in 2016, nearly one in five adults in the U.S. has a mental, behavioral, or emotional health disorder. That same year, the foundation did an analysis of data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis Health...
by Tracey Walker | May 28, 2020 | News
The American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA; Overland Park, Kan.) recently released a survey of its members to identify role of design in the COVID-19 healthcare crisis. The survey of more than 100 ACHA members found that more than 63 percent of respondents...
by Tracey Walker | May 27, 2020 | News
Fueled by the COVID-19 crisis and the need for low-contact healthcare, Norton Healthcare (Louisville, Ky.) is planning to build a permanent drive-thru healthcare facility and walk-up diagnostic testing center, according to an article in WLKY. The facility, which will...
by Tracey Walker | May 27, 2020 | News
Design firm Stantec ( Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) has added Jenny Manansala as a senior interior designer to its buildings design team in Honolulu. Manansala has 20 years of experience in healthcare and commercial interiors and is a LEED AP. Her focus will include the...
by Tracey Walker | May 22, 2020 | News
Bronson Healthcare (Kalamazoo, Mich.) is planning an 18,000-square-foot ambulatory surgery center to address the growing surgical case volume at Kalamazoo-based Bronson Methodist Hospital. The health system anticipates shifting approximately 5,400 orthopedic cases...
by Tracey Walker | May 21, 2020 | Projects
Facing increasing need for inpatient and outpatient capacity and to prepare for future growth and expansion, Inspira Health (Mullica Hill, N.J.) tapped Array Advisors (Washington, D.C.), the healthcare consulting arm of Array Architects, to conduct an investigation of...
by Tracey Walker | May 21, 2020 | News
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.) plans to convert a former Harris Teeter supermarket into an ambulatory surgery center in Belle Mead, Tenn., according to an article in Nashville Business Journal. The $15 million, 50,000-square-foot Belle Meade...
by Tracey Walker | May 20, 2020 | News
Universal Health Services (UHS) in King Prussia, Pa., is planning to build a new hospital with an outpatient ambulatory center and two new urgent care centers in Washington, D.C., according to an article in Becker’s Hospital Review. The 136-bed facility will replace...
