by Anne DiNardo | Jul 28, 2016 | Projects
Florida Hospital Healthcare System’s new women’s hospital is designed to be a holistic women’s healthcare facility that complements the existing architecture on the flagship’s main campus and allows for new synergies of care.When it’s...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 27, 2016 | Trends
Home design may not be the purview of healthcare architects, but as a nexus in a spectrum of spaces that contribute to health and well-being we should start paying more attention to where and how people live, especially as healthcare broadens its focus from treating...
by Anne DiNardo | Jul 27, 2016 | Projects
Bringing together 11 physician practices into one location gave ProMedica Health and Wellness Center in Sylvania, Ohio, the opportunity to improve operational efficiencies while creating a sense of place within the community. The 230,000-square-foot project was...
by Anne DiNardo | Jul 26, 2016 | Projects
Scheduled to open in spring 2017, the new 154,000-square-foot outpatient pavilion at the University of California San Diego will support the new Jacobs Medical Center and serve as the outpatient hub for UCSD’s La Jolla Health Sciences campus. The four-story facility...
by Anne DiNardo | Jul 25, 2016 | 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.Dan Morris is founder and managing partner of MorrisSwitzer Environments for Health, which...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Jul 22, 2016 | Projects
Ravenswood Family Health Center’s (RFHC) new John and Susan Sobrato Campus in East Palo Alto, Calif., offers a full spectrum of health, social, and wellness resources. After operating in modular buildings since 2001, the $39 million facility provides all residents of...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Jul 18, 2016 | Projects
The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center (Phoenix), winner of an Award of Merit in the 2016 Healthcare Design Showcase, opened in June 2015—but it almost didn’t happen at all. The...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Jul 18, 2016 | Projects
With fritted-glass exterior walls that appear to spiral gently inward toward the accelerators anchoring its core, Kaiser Permanente’s Kraemer Radiation Oncology Center (Anaheim, Calif.) makes it clear from the first look that its approach to cancer care aims to...
by Anne DiNardo | Jul 15, 2016 | Projects
Before designing a new pediatric waiting room for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (London), designers at Boex, an interior and product design firm based in Cornwall, England, asked to shadow the hospital staff for 24 hours to better understand the workings of the...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 13, 2016 | Trends
In any project, conditions of satisfaction are a critical component of the contract because they provide an unchanging definition of success. When a project lacks this, the contract can mean different things to different people, or even different things to the same...
