by Anne DiNardo | Nov 30, 2016 | News
The annual Nightingale Awards honored 25 products in 13 categories for their contribution to healing environments. The annual awards program, co-presented at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference by Healthcare Design and Contract magazines in partnership with...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 29, 2016 | News
Aurora Health Care will construct a new $17 million clinic in Oak Creek, Wis. The facility will bring new and expanded healthcare services including urgent care, primary care, radiology, lab, pharmacy, and specialty services. The clinic will replace a smaller medical...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 28, 2016 | News
Aspirus Health System recently celebrated the opening of a new clinic in Ironwood, Mich. Aspirus Ironwood Clinic is a 43,000 square-foot facility featuring 63 patient rooms, 29 provider offices, a large community meeting room, as well as a coffee and gift shop. It...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 28, 2016 | News
Great Ormond Street Hospital in London has selected a new preferrd contractor to build its new pediatric healthcare research facility. Construction on the approximately $75 million, 140,000-square-foot Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Diseases in Children is...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 28, 2016 | Trends
A cabinet handle, a handrail, a countertop—choose your weapon. Or choose all of the weapons. Doing battle with healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) is resulting in innovative methods to combat the dastardly bugs that are attacking patients after they’re admitted to...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 28, 2016 | News
SCL Health is planning to host a ribbon-cutting ceremony this week to mark the opening of SCL Health Community Hospital – Northglenn, in Northglenn, Colo. The new 60,000-square-foot hospital features a state-of-the-art emergency department with surgical capabilities,...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 28, 2016 | News
Urgent care clinic operator Exer has partnered with Providence Health & Services, a Catholic, not-for-profit healthcare system, to open a facility in Redondo Beach, Calif. The urgent care houses an on-site laboratory, diagnostic and imaging equipment, and...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 21, 2016 | Trends
Any conversations between healthcare providers and their design partners regarding capital projects were colored by a marked sense of uncertainty leading up to passage of the hotly contested Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010. It continued until the U.S. Supreme Court...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 21, 2016 | Trends
The operations of many new outpatient clinics are designed to support the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model, a concept that was codified by four major physician associations in the “Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home” white paper in 2007....
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 18, 2016 | News
The end of this year’s Healthcare Design (HCD) Expo & Conference wrapped up with a vision of the future, one that attendees who plan, design, and build healthcare facilities might not be expecting—a future without walls. Susan Dentzer, president and CEO of Network...
