by Kristin D. Zeit | Sep 18, 2015 | Projects
Bicester Community Hospital is a new community healthcare facility in the county of Oxfordshire, U.K., designed by IBI Group. Commissioned by NHS Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Cluster, the $7.8 million new facility replaces the existing hospital that opened in 1908,...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 17, 2015 | Trends
Healthcare facilities can quickly become obsolete unless they’re designed for flexibility and adaptability. Evolving healthcare services and delivery methods are affecting facility utilization and prompting the need to quickly answer those changes. To get the most...
by Paglia Donna | Sep 15, 2015 | Projects
Project category: New construction Chief administrator: Lucillee Janatka, facility adminstrator/CEO Firm: Steffian Bradley Architects, www.steffian.com Design team: Robert Humenn, AIA, principal-in-charge/lead designer; Kirsten Waltz, AIA, ACHA, EDAC, LEED AP,...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 15, 2015 | Trends
An emerging conversation about climate change places healthcare institutions, and the buildings that house them, at an inflection point. The health effects of climate change are real, apparent, and urgent. The 3rd U.S. Climate Assessment, published in 2014, found that...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 15, 2015 | Trends
It’s that time of the year again, when the “big” issue of Healthcare Design lands on your desk or in your inbox. This issue represents an entire year’s worth of the best healthcare projects from not just the U.S. but from around the...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 11, 2015 | Projects
Patients and families will travel from across the country to receive care at the new Shriners Hospitals for Children—Canada in Montreal when it opens to patients in October. To make the environment welcoming and friendly to all, the colors and attractions of the...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 9, 2015 | Trends
Effective surgical spaces can’t be achieved in a vacuum. “The most successful design solutions are those in which the users see their input in the final space,” says Scott Holmes, associate principal of medical planning at BWBR Architects....
by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 9, 2015 | Projects
Clarity Child Guidance Center is a nonprofit children’s hospital in San Antonio that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, with an existing campus built in the 1980s within the South Texas Medical Center. In 2013,...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 8, 2015 | Trends
As a major source of revenue for healthcare systems, building adequate flexibility to accommodate multiple types of surgeries into today’s operating rooms is a big priority.While features like larger rooms, interstitial floors, and surgical booms with...
by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 3, 2015 | Projects
Designing a 325,000-square-foot integrated behavioral health campus to be both operationally manageable and therapeutic was no small task—but it did require thinking small.It was breaking that campus down into pieces across inpatient and outpatient as well as...
