by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 28, 2019 | News
Responding to demands for improved patient experience as well as enhanced functionality, the Ascend Patient Recliner with Vertical Lift delivers on all fronts. The unique offering from Krug, both an exam table and recliner, was heralded by jurors in the 2018...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 28, 2019 | News
View the slideshow above to check out the Gold, Silver, and Innovation winners of the 2018 Nightingale Awards, which recognize contributions to the healthcare built environment through product design and innovation. For more coverage of the awards presented at the...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 28, 2019 | News
During the annual Healthcare Design Expo & Conference each November, the winners of Healthcare Design’s various awards programs from the preceding months are fêted. However, there’s one last competition that takes place right on-site in the expo hall, with the...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 28, 2019 | Trends
Private spaces energize introverts and social spaces energize extroverts. If the population is divided equally between introverts and extroverts, then what are we doing in hospitals to address the needs of both populations? We’ll explore that topic in this blog...
by Anne DiNardo | Jan 25, 2019 | Projects
The Center for Health & Wellbeing in Winter Park, Fla., expected to open in early 2019, will merge practices for wholeness, fitness, and clinical medicine with education and community outreach programs through a partnership between the Winter Park Health...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 25, 2019 | News
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has opened registration for its newest version of the LEED green building program, LEED v4.1, for both new construction projects as well as interior spaces with LEED v4.1 BD+C and LEED v4.1 ID+C. According to the press release,...
by Anne DiNardo | Jan 24, 2019 | Trends
While a decade ago it was common to see new heart centers delivered that were focused mainly on cardiology, hospital systems today are enlisting architecture firms to build facilities capable of housing more comprehensive interventional procedures or heart and...
by Anne DiNardo | Jan 24, 2019 | Projects
Many of the key building elements, including the inner core, shell, column spacing, floor-to-ceiling height, load-bearing capacity, and utility distribution, were already in place when architecture firm HED (Southfield, Mich.) joined the $80 million WVU Heart and...
by Anne DiNardo | Jan 23, 2019 | Projects
Palos Health redeveloped and expanded an existing outpatient campus in the southern Chicago suburb of Orland Park, Ill., in conjunction with academic healthcare partner Loyola University Medical Center (Maywood, Ill.). The campus formerly housed a mix of medical...
by Anne DiNardo | Jan 22, 2019 | 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. Catherine Gow is the principal of health facilities planning for Francis Cauffman...
