by HCD Guest Author | Nov 18, 2016 | Trends
Emergency departments are evolving as healthcare organizations address the changing needs of their patient base. EDs often serve as a melting pot where diverse demographics converge with a range of medical emergencies. Immediate, coordinated response from caregivers...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Nov 18, 2016 | Projects
Completed in 2016, the 11-story Building for Transformative Medicine, designed by NBBJ, bring 620,000 square feet of translational research and clinical space to Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The new building houses eight floors of research laboratories, two floors of...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 15, 2016 | News
Waiting rooms play a big role in a facility’s first impression with patients and family members. That environment can also be a source of comfort and stress relief or a place where anxiety and agitation rise. To improve that experience as part of overall patient...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 14, 2016 | News
For the first time in its history, The Center for Health Design presented its Changemaker award to two recipients: D. Kirk Hamilton and Jaynelle Stichler.The duo, who’ve spent the last 10 years working together as founding co-editors of the Health Environments...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 14, 2016 | News
The doors of Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) Pavilion for Women in Houston were opened to attendees of the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference for a tour on Nov. 12. Leaders shared successes and lessons learned during the design of the $575 million facility...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 13, 2016 | News
Looking to add to the body of research on nursing station design and the effects of different models on nurse communication, care processes, and patient outcomes, researchers and staff at the University of Kentucky teamed up with University of Kentucky Medical Center...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 13, 2016 | News
The Houston Methodist Hospital’s $249 million outpatient center opened in 2010 on a one-and-a-half city block city in the Texas Medical Center in Houston. The 1.6 million square-foot facility, designed by WHR Architects, was designed to bring all of...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 13, 2016 | News
Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal, professor of medicine at University of California San Francisco, studies how doctors think, providing a unique perspective on what exactly takes place between the time a patient presents with symptoms and a diagnosis is finally reached.However,...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 12, 2016 | News
The mission of the University of Texas MD Anderson’s Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Building for Personalized Cancer Care—simply put—is to cure cancer. But what goes into achieving that mission is far more complex. That’s where the design of the translational...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 11, 2016 | Trends
The design of a new medical/surgical unit can cause mixed emotions among users of the space: excitement from knowing that an improved work environment typically equates to improved workflow but also anxiety regarding changes to staff processes and delivery of care. A...
