by HCD Guest Author | Nov 10, 2015 | Trends
With the Affordable Care Act in place and an economy on the rise, retail and healthcare are an inseparable pair. Healthcare organizations are ramping up to improve patient experience and population health—not only by embracing preventive care and cost-conscious...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 10, 2015 | Projects
To align with the changing needs of the healthcare sector in Detroit, Detroit Medical Center (DMC) sought to create a hospital that would best serve its patient population today as well as have the ability to be rearranged or expanded as needs evolve. The new...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 9, 2015 | Trends
Ninety percent—that’s the amount of time Americans spend indoors, from homes to offices to retail spaces and healthcare facilities, according to Mayo Clinic. To better understand how this reality can affect human health and well-being, the clinic and Delos, a New...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 9, 2015 | Trends
You’re a healthcare project manager responsible for constructing a new building in your system. To date, you’ve followed the strategic plan and the master plan and have developed a conceptual project budget. You’ve secured board approval, too. Now it’s time to review...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 6, 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 6, 2015 | Trends
Healthcare is moving away from individual encounters with single clinicians and toward coordinated, integrated care by high-performing teams. This is particularly true in the outpatient environment and for healthcare systems pursuing patient-centered medical home...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Nov 5, 2015 | Projects
Stanford Health Care’s newest National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Cancer Center South Bay, designed by Ratcliff (Emeryville, Calif.), opened July 2015 in San Jose, Calif. The four-story, 70,000-square-foot medical office building offers patients coordinated...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 5, 2015 | Projects
Not only is the new 235,000-square-foot, 100-bed Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) Braselton notable for sustainability measures that have it tracking LEED Gold and a rigorous use of Lean design that’s streamlined clinical processes and operations. But what also...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 4, 2015 | Trends
Designing spaces to meet the needs of baby boomers is especially challenging because there’s no clear definition of this specific patient population nor of its unique needs and desires regarding the healthcare built environment. So it’s no wonder that there’s...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 3, 2015 | Projects
Sandra Bond Chapman, PhD, founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas, has not only imagined a world where we take as much interest in the health of our brains as we do the rest of our bodies, but has spent her career...
