by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 24, 2020 | News
In late March, the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) assembled a coalition of architects, engineers, and builders to help hospitals and other healthcare facilities identify and evaluate unused space that could be quickly activated to increase surge...
by Tracey Walker | Apr 24, 2020 | News
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many product manufacturers and vendors are coming up with inventive ways to give back to their healthcare communities. Whether its pivoting manufacturing to help alleviate shortages or partnering with others, here are some uplifting ways...
by Tracey Walker | Apr 24, 2020 | News
Unity Health Toronto in Toronto has accelerated the opening of select floors of the Peter Gilgan patient care tower at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto to be dedicated to COVID-19 critical care patients. The intensive care units on the hospital’s fourth and seventh...
by Tracey Walker | Apr 23, 2020 | Projects
The Hospital for Special Surgery Orthopedic Center of Excellence in West Palm Beach, Fla., set out to improve the patient experience by offering a continuum of care under one roof, including diagnostics services, ambulatory surgery, rehabilitation, and sports...
by Tracey Walker | Apr 23, 2020 | News
Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y., has constructed a field hospital in an effort to prepare for a possible surge of COVID-19 patients. Located in the hospital’s north parking lot, the tented structure can house approximately 30 to 40 patients. The...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 22, 2020 | News, Trends
The healthcare design industry is on the front lines of battling the COVID-19 pandemic, collaborating with hospitals and health systems to implement numerous built environment solutions to support the ongoing patient surge. To better understand where we stand as an...
by Tracey Walker | Apr 22, 2020 | News
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, construction been completed on a 450-bed hospital inside the Miami Beach Convention Center, in Miami Beach, Fla. In less than two weeks, more than 250,000 square feet of exhibit hall space has been transformed into a field...
by Tracey Walker | Apr 21, 2020 | Trends
As the COVID-19 crisis challenges healthcare facilities across the world, several changes are emanating from the coronavirus pandemic that ultimately will affect the design of healthcare facilities going forward. “Healthcare design can be an important defense against...
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...
