by Jennifer Silvis | Dec 22, 2016 | Trends
As designers work to minimize noise disruptions in healthcare facilities, a related issue is ensuring patient privacy. For example, in exam rooms, an electronic sound masking system producing at least 42 dBA should ideally be combined with walls that terminate 6...
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by Paglia Donna | Dec 21, 2016 | Projects
Submitted by: Show Chwan Memorial Hospital [Changhua, Taiwan] Cost per square foot: $62 Design team: Dr. Min-Ho Huang, president; Pei-Yuan Lee, superintendent; Hui-Mei Hsu, administrative deputy superintendent; Yi-Shiuan Lin, service manager; Zih-Ping Ho, researcher...
by HCD Guest Author | Dec 21, 2016 | News
R.J. Sommerdyke has joined Meridian’s acquisition team in Southern California. He will be based out of the company’s Irvine, Calif., office. In his new position, Sommerdyke will be responsible for all aspects of acquiring value-add healthcare properties...
by HCD Guest Author | Dec 20, 2016 | News
BJC Healthcare is moving ahead with plans to replace Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital in St. Louis. After nearly two years of planning, the design of the new hospital is complete, and contractors will break ground first quarter 2017. The new facility will feature 64...
by HCD Guest Author | Dec 20, 2016 | News
Horty Elving, an architecture/engineering firm which merged with Wold Architects and Engineers in 2014, is rebranding and will now be known as Wold. Wold is an architectural design, engineering, planning, energy efficiency, interior design and historic preservation...
by Anne DiNardo | Dec 16, 2016 | News
Banner—University Medical Center Tucson in Tucson, Ariz., has tapped Shepley Bulfinch (Boston, Houston, and Phoenix) to lead the programming, planning, and designing of a new $400 million, 700,000-square-foot clinical tower. The academic medical center and level one...
by Anne DiNardo | Dec 16, 2016 | News
Healthcare2U (Austin, Texas) has added a clinic in Shreveport, La., to its network. As part of the expansion, Fairfield Family Clinic of Shreveport is joining the Heatlhcare2U private physician network to provide medical care, wellness, and chronic disease management...
by Anne DiNardo | Dec 16, 2016 | News
FastMed Urgent Care had expanded with a new clinic location in Houston, marking FastMed’s 19th clinic in the Texas. The clinic offers urgent care, sports physicals, occupational health services, flu shots, and other healthcare services 365 days a...
by Jennifer Silvis | Dec 15, 2016 | Trends
No matter what side of the aisle you fall on, we’re collectively amid a time in American history that doesn’t feel a whole lot like anything we’ve seen before. Last month’s presidential election revealed a divisiveness in this country that few realized ran so deep,...
by Anne DiNardo | Dec 15, 2016 | Trends
Melinda Lin has spent her 17-year-career learning the ins and outs of medical and equipment planning from both sides of the industry, working for a number of architecture firms as well as healthcare organizations, including Kaiser Permanente and Stanford Health Care....
