by Kristin D. Zeit | Dec 3, 2015 | Projects
Hardin Memorial Hospital (HMH) is a county-owned facility in Elizabethtown, Ky. Its oldest section was built in 1954, with numerous additions and renovations. Of its 300 inpatient beds, fewer than 50 percent were private rooms, and its most recent “new” patient rooms...
by Anne DiNardo | Dec 3, 2015 | Trends
Name: David F. Chambers Award: 20 Making A Difference, 2006 Then: Director, Planning Architecture & Design, Sutter Health (Sacramento, Calif.) Now: President, David F. Chambers Consulting Inc. (Renton, Wash.) What he’s been up to: Led Sutter Health’s prototype...
by Anne DiNardo | Dec 2, 2015 | Trends
Name: Rosalyn Cama Award: Most Influential People in Healthcare Design, 2009 and 2010 Then and now: President, Cama Inc. (New Haven, Conn.) What she’s been up to since her awards: Completed several new hospital projects; published the book Evidence-Based Healthcare...
by Anne DiNardo | Dec 2, 2015 | Trends
Over the years, Healthcare Design has evolved its professional awards programs to celebrate individuals who are making meaningful contributions to the industry, with honorees ranging from organization presidents and design firm principals to researchers and...
by Anne DiNardo | Dec 1, 2015 | News
The Institute for Patient-Centered Design Inc. focused its fourth annual design competition on patient room design for mental health facilities, with the winner announced at the recent Healthcare Design Expo & Conference. “We decided to tackle this subject in...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Dec 1, 2015 | Trends
It’s two days post-Healthcare Design Expo & Conference as I write this. It was a great show in my completely unbiased opinion—we’ll tell you all about it in our show review coverage in the January/February 2016 issue. And as the event buzz finally starts to wear...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 24, 2015 | Trends
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That’s one of the lessons gleaned from projects that healthcare organizations launched over the past decade to achieve some major sustainable design goals. Some had their eyes on never-before-seen levels of energy...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Nov 20, 2015 | Projects
The St. Louis Children’s Hospital Specialty Care Center is one of only a few stand-alone, comprehensive outpatient facilities in the U.S. focused exclusively on patients up to the age of 21. The center, designed by CannonDesign and located approximately 12 miles from...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 19, 2015 | Projects
University of Kentucky’s $265 million, 306,000-square-foot collaborative research center broke ground on Oct. 23 at its Lexington, Ky., campus. Scheduled for completion in the summer of 2018, Research Building Two (RB2) will house scientific research aimed at...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 19, 2015 | Trends
As the healthcare industry shifts toward outpatient care, healthcare organizations are reevaluating clinic planning to meet evolving patient needs. Once-standard waiting rooms, workstations, and exam rooms are evolving to accommodate new delivery models for a diverse...
