by Anne DiNardo | Nov 15, 2015 | News
“Can the physical environment influence behavior in a positive way?” That was the question posed to attendees at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference in the session, “Healthy Environments for Autism.” Specifically, speakers Cathy Lord, a clinical psychologist...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 15, 2015 | News
What are people saying about your organization? What do you want them to say? What are you doing to get them to say it? Those three questions are applicable for the design firm trying to attract new clients, the healthcare system looking to gain more market share, and...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 15, 2015 | News
In keeping with its mission to create opportunities for low-income families in Washington, D.C., in 2012 Community of Hope (COH) embarked on its newest, largest project to date. Completed in February 2014, the Conway Health and Resource Center provides healthcare,...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 15, 2015 | News
Sibley Memorial Hospital, a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine, began master planning for a new pavilion and patient tower in 2004. The strategy focused on improving its aging infrastructure, updating its 60-year-old hospital with new rooms settings, and addressing...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 14, 2015 | News
Breaking ground in 2012 as a major piece of Inova Health System’s capital improvement program, the new Inova Women’s Hospital and Inova Children’s Hospital in Falls Church, Va., will open to patients in January 2016. But, first, attendees of the Healthcare Design Expo...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 13, 2015 | Projects
When Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) set out to create a new freestanding outpatient surgery center in Manhattan, it got the opportunity to address a capacity issue and move outpatient operative cases off its main campus. The operator also got the chance...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 13, 2015 | News
The exhibit hall at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference (Nov. 14-17, Washington, D.C.) will be chock-full of hundreds of products from vendors, manufacturers, and service providers working in the healthcare design space, with several using the event to...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 12, 2015 | Projects
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center sought a state-of-the-art Clinical Sciences Pavilion to support its vision to be the “leader in improving child health.” The driver for the design and functionality of the 465,000-square-foot research building, which...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 12, 2015 | Projects
Hospitals aren’t the only ones adapting their environments to support a more team-based approach to cancer care. “Probably every academic institution is looking at their cancer service line in the clinical world as well as the research,” says Jon Crane, senior vice...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 11, 2015 | Trends
For the last 14 years, I’ve had the incredible opportunity to serve as chairperson of The Center for Health Design’s board of directors, sitting with an amazing table of thought leaders who have changed the way you and I practice design and the way most Americans...
