by HCD Guest Author | Oct 16, 2015 | Trends
The boomer generation is once again blazing its own trail as they’ve always done. This time, they’re turning the senior housing market upside down. In fact, the impact is so significant that a new building type, or typology if you will, has clearly emerged. This...
by Anne DiNardo | Oct 15, 2015 | News
At the 2015 Healthcare Design Expo & Conference (Nov. 14-17, Washington, D.C.), Ken Schmidt, brand visionary and former director of communications strategy for Harley-Davidson Motor Co., will present the opening keynote presentation, “Creating Customer...
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...
