by HCD Guest Author | Oct 14, 2015 | Trends
America’s approach to behavioral health has undergone dramatic transformation within the career span of many of us who’ve been involved in the design of environments that support that care. Merely a generation ago, it was considered highly innovative to reduce...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Oct 12, 2015 | Trends
In 1984, Roger S. Ulrich launched a thousand think pieces, papers, and research projects with the publication of his seminal work on evidence-based design (EBD), “View Through a Window May Influence Recovery from Surgery.” Thirty years later,...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 9, 2015 | Trends
The specialty of healthcare master planning is going through a series of changes, mirroring the current evolution of the healthcare industry itself. What’s particularly interesting about this is the comprehensive nature of these types of initiatives, which may include...
by Anne DiNardo | Oct 9, 2015 | Trends
In this series, Healthcare Design asks leading healthcare design professionals, firms, and owners to tell us what’s got their attention and share some ideas on the subject.Patrick E. Duke is managing director at CBRE | Healthcare (Richmond, Va.). Here, he shares...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 8, 2015 | Trends
We’ve all had experiences where having an internal storeroom of resilience has come in handy. Sick kids, overwhelming workloads, training for a marathon, the loss of a loved one—all of these things and thousands more can push us to our limits, causing us...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 7, 2015 | Trends
As New Orleans marks the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, two new healthcare facilities are replacing those destroyed in the disaster. With price tags of about $1 billion each, University Medical Center (UMC) New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Veterans...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Oct 2, 2015 | Featured Firms Projects
The Women & Infants Specialty Health (WISH) Clinic opened on the New Parkland campus in Dallas on August 23, 2015. The new 135,000-square-foot healthcare facility serves Dallas County patients as part of the Parkland Health & Hospital System.The team of...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 1, 2015 | Trends
How do errors in medication distribution impact a hospital’s bottom line? Just a single medication error can cost a facility hundreds of thousands of dollars. On a grander scale, medical errors cost up to $1 trillion annually according to a report in the Journal of...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 1, 2015 | Trends
As recently as 20 years ago, there was a gold standard for clinic design, focused on caregiver needs rather than patient comfort. Clinics were aesthetically antiseptic places in which white walls, linoleum floors, fluorescent lights, and overactive air conditioners...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 30, 2015 | Trends
When designing facilities with lifespans of around 50 years while at the same time considering the fast advancements in medicine and technology, surgery departments, especially, must be adaptable to accommodate change. A large piece of a hospital’s revenue comes from...
