by Tracey Walker | Mar 2, 2020 | Trends
After launching two small businesses—including her own design firm—to survive the Great Recession, Bronson joined Hoefer Wysocki in 2014 and found her home in healthcare design. Here, she discusses using design to spark joy, the importance of addressing simple...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 28, 2020 | News
Healthcare Design’s sister magazine, Environments for Aging, which serves professionals involved in the planning, design, and construction of senior living communities, is accepting nominations for its annual Design Champions awards program. Candidates will have made...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 28, 2020 | News
Pure Healthcare, a new venture of 10 affiliated providers launched by Ohio’s Hospice, opened a new palliative and chronic care facility in Centerville, Ohio. The three-story, 36,000-square-foot facility includes an ambulatory palliative care clinic; exercise...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 27, 2020 | Trends
Controlling excessive noise in healthcare environments has long been an industry goal. However, recent design solutions to support competing interests, ranging from aesthetics to efficiency to infection control, may contribute to the noise problem—for example,...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 27, 2020 | News
Norton Healthcare, Louisville, Ky., will open a 46,000-square-foot facility in Louisville. The facility will house CPA Labs, a division of Norton Healthcare that provides comprehensive anatomic and cytopathology services for providers, with a staff of 18...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 26, 2020 | Trends
In 2011, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) was acting on a strategic plan to roll out regional facilities in New York’s tri-state area, bringing care and services delivered at its main campus in Manhattan closer to where patients live outside the city. Two...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 26, 2020 | Trends
In 2017, The Center for Health Design launched a new award program to recognize projects and organizations using an evidence-based design (EBD) process in their building design. The Evidence-Based Design Touchstone Award was born out of a desire to both encourage and...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 25, 2020 | News
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has plans for a new inpatient pediatric mental health and behavioral services facility on its College Hill campus in Cincinnati. The new five-story, $90 million building will replace an existing facility and will include...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 24, 2020 | News
NexCore Group, a healthcare real estate developer in Denver, Colo., in partnership with Chicago-based investment management firm Harrison Street, has acquired an ambulatory surgery center property in Phoenix. Built in 2000, the one-story, 11,308-square-foot...
by Tracey Walker | Feb 24, 2020 | Trends
A new cancer center opens only to require renovations six months later because volumes weren’t understood prior to construction. A health system kicks off a hybrid operating room addition without first identifying what services would be performed in that space. A...
