by Anne DiNardo | May 23, 2016 | Projects
Family caregivers can spend long periods of time in the Level I trauma ICU at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y. Previously, the hospital housed a waiting room adjacent to the ICU where visitors could take a break without leaving the unit, but it wasn’t an...
by Anne DiNardo | May 20, 2016 | Projects
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus (Glasgow, Scotland), which opened to patients in July 2015, brings together Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, making it one of Europe’s largest and most advanced medical...
by HCD Guest Author | May 19, 2016 | Trends
The patient room is one of the better-researched areas of an acute care facility, and because of that it’s one of the easiest places to incorporate thoughtful evidence-based design (EBD) features. Through grants from the ASID Foundation and the Angelo...
by Anne DiNardo | May 18, 2016 | Trends
When Golisano Children’s Hospital sought input about its current wayfinding and signage program from patient and family focus groups to help guide the design of a new eight-story, $145 million facility in Rochester, N.Y., it got some brutally honest feedback. “Your...
by Anne DiNardo | May 17, 2016 | Projects
Hospital dining should be a place of respite for patients, visitors, and employees alike, but at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the 13,500-square-foot cafeteria was serving up a dated environment. “The cafeteria layout posed throughput issues and constraints...
by Jennifer Silvis | May 17, 2016 | Projects
The new Ghana Ridge Hospital will provide contemporary facilities that reflect the current social aspirations of the rapidly developing African country. Since existing infrastructure at the site already serves as the main healthcare provider in the city of Accra,...
by Kristin D. Zeit | May 16, 2016 | Projects
Founded in the 1970s, Downtown Women OB/GYN (DTW) was one of the first practices in Manhattan specifically committed to providing healthcare for women, by women. In 1987 DTW moved from a small office on lower Fifth Avenue to a third-floor, 2,500-square-foot loft space...
by Kristin D. Zeit | May 9, 2016 | Projects
Built into a timber loft in Chicago’s River North neighborhood, Medical Dermatology Associates is a 5,500-square-foot medical clinic for a newly formed medical practice. The partners wanted to dramatically improve patient experience, and the designers from...
by Jennifer Silvis | May 6, 2016 | Projects
When the city of Hackensack, N.J., designated the current site of Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative (BVMI) for redevelopment, the organization—the only of its kind in Bergen County to provide free primary healthcare to uninsured, low-income working...
by HCD Guest Author | May 6, 2016 | Trends
As a hands-on way to encourage wellness, more and more health systems are on a mission to show and tell their communities how to eat well. Introducing demonstration kitchens, some with mini-auditoriums, has become an innovative way for hospitals to engage the public...
