by Anne DiNardo | Sep 13, 2016 | Projects
A special delivery arrived at Mount Sinai Hospital in May when four new self-care hospitality suites opened on the Toronto hospital’s 17th floor. The pilot program is designated for pregnant women who are not acutely ill but who are at risk of needing immediate access...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 8, 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 Kristin D. Zeit | Sep 7, 2016 | Trends
I don’t know if you noticed the caterpillar-chrysalis-butterfly ads we’ve been running in the magazine this year. If you didn’t, you may get your September issue in the mail and think, “Whaa..?" I understand. It’s a big change. We...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Sep 2, 2016 | Projects
Providing an optimal patient experience was the design team’s guiding vision for the new Scripps Clinic John R. Anderson V Medical Pavilion, a $130 million outpatient clinic at the Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla Campus in California. Scripps Health also envisioned...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2016 | Trends
One challenge the UHS Henderson Hospital team encountered at the outset of the project, an in-progress building that’s part of the Union Village health village in Henderson, Nev., was how to allocate optimal time for design in order to meet the customer’s vision,...
by Anne DiNardo | Aug 26, 2016 | Projects
The 20,000-square-foot MemorialCare Medical Foundation in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., is designed to create a new facility model that positions physician services, ambulatory procedures, testing, and wellness programs in a convenient, accessible location to patients...
by Anne DiNardo | Aug 24, 2016 | Trends
In 1997, Mezio Zangirolami began a student internship at FKP Architects—and never left.Now a senior vice president, he’s the firm’s go-to guy for the design of Seacrest Studios, having served as design and technical lead on seven of the 10 radio/TV...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 23, 2016 | Trends
If you stand in the hallway of a hospital unit, what do you hear? On any given day, most facilities’ floors are filled with an array of noises caused by paging, code alerts, medical equipment, footsteps, and conversations. Yet there’s an increased awareness that such...
by Anne DiNardo | Aug 18, 2016 | Projects
The University of Vermont Medical Center (Burlington, Vt.) broke ground on a new $187 million inpatient bed building in June. The Robert E. and Holly D. Miller Building was approved in 2016 and is slated for completion in 2019. The project will facilitate the medical...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Aug 15, 2016 | Trends
As all eyes turned to Rio de Janeiro this month for the Summer Olympics, our August issue of Healthcare Design, coincidentally, also turned the spotlight to both sports and the thrill of competition.Sports are a big deal in America. (Just ask Jennifer, Shandi, and...
