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...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 29, 2015 | Trends
The evolution toward less institutionalized behavioral healthcare environments is also influencing the design of care spaces dedicated to younger populations. For starters, gone are the days when parents were locked out of a facility and permitted to see their child...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 25, 2015 | Trends
LED technology’s reputation as an energy-saving light source and a good replacement option for incandescent and halogen lamps has led to broader use within healthcare spaces. However, the lighting source isn’t always understood by the people who specify it, use it, or...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 25, 2015 | Trends
In February 2014, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton opened the Margaret and Charles Juravinski Centre for Integrated Healthcare in Hamilton, Ontario. The project was impressive for its size alone, with 850,000 square feet and more than 300 psychiatric beds, as the...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 24, 2015 | Trends
Last year, a provider set out to build a state-of-the-art operating room (OR) at an existing hospital with 25 ORs in various sizes and conditions. Except for nine newer ambulatory ORs, the rest were more than 30 years old and in desperate need of total overhaul. The...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Sep 23, 2015 | Trends
I was chatting with Debajyoti Pati, a professor in the department of design at Texas Tech University, at an industry event several months ago, when he offhandedly mentioned how recent research seemed to suggest that decentralized nurses’ stations may not be everything...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 22, 2015 | Trends
To the city of Henderson, Nev., Union Village is 151 acres of city-owned property that sold for $11.6 million in April 2011 to boost medical infrastructure in Southern Nevada. But beyond the Las Vegas suburb, it will be the first integrated health village of its kind...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 22, 2015 | Trends
The importance of art in healthcare spaces is an idea that has blossomed in the last decade as more designers and operators recognize the healing benefits of positive distraction, nature views, and daylight within their care environments. When Grinnell Regional...
by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 21, 2015 | Projects
ReadyMed Plus, a new walk-in medical facility and infusion suite in Worcester, Mass., is an example of Reliant Medical Group’s goal of delivering healthcare that’s most convenient for the way people live today. Reliant is a multispecialty medical group with more than...
