by HCD Guest Author | Nov 7, 2018 | News
Providence Health Services has opened a new medical facility in Torrance, Calif., on the site of the former Daily Breeze newspaper building. The three-story, 106,000-square-foot (not including parking) care center will house a women’s center, imaging center,...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 5, 2018 | Trends
Stephen Parker got his first design job at 15, when he asked an architect at his church if he was hiring. That architect, Greg McFarland of Pike McFarland Hall Architects in Myrtle Beach, S.C., said yes. “I then asked if he paid and he said, ‘We’ll see’ … thankfully,...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 5, 2018 | News
Ever-changing demands on healthcare environments, driven by evolving care delivery models, customer expectations, and technology, are pushing the design community to seek fresh ideas on how to deliver adaptable environments that can enhance and improve the patient and...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 2, 2018 | Projects
VCU Health and Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University have opened the 119,000-square-foot Virginia Treatment Center for Children (VTCC), in Richmond, Va. Dedicated to delivering family-centered psychiatric care for young patients, the...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2018 | Trends
Since The Center for Health Design’s founding in 1993, we’ve spent a good amount of time monitoring the industry and looking for patterns and trends. Through this exercise, we begin to recognize key drivers that are or will soon be impacting our industry. As we...
by Anne DiNardo | Oct 31, 2018 | News
Ingrid Fetell Lee, designer and founder of The Aesthetics of Joy, former design director at Ideo, and author of “Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness,” will deliver the opening keynote at the 2018 Healthcare Design Expo...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2018 | News
Kimball, a subsidiary of Kimball International Inc., has signed an agreement to acquire David Edward (Baltimore), a designer and manufacturer of contract furniture, sold in the healthcare, corporate, education, and premium hospitality markets. In conjunction with the...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2018 | News
Sanjay Parmar, AIA, has joined EYP Architecture and Engineering as a senior medical planner in the Raleigh, N.C., office. In this position, Parmar will lead business development initiatives, promoting the firm’s capabilities in innovative design, project management,...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2018 | News
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has awarded contracts for new specialty hospitals at UPMC to three firms after an international architectural design competition. The design plans for the UPMC Heart and Transplant Hospital, UPMC Hillman Cancer...
by Anne DiNardo | Oct 30, 2018 | Projects
Located in the heart of the UC San Diego Health’s campus in La Jolla, Calif, the Koman Family Outpatient Pavilion follows an “all-in-one” approach to offer multidisciplinary specialists and comprehensive services for convenient patient care in one facility. The design...
