by Anne DiNardo | Mar 31, 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. Laura Poltronieri is the founding principal at Poltronieri Tang & Associates (Swarthmore,...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 31, 2015 | Projects
Despite retail clinics being dubbed a “disruptive innovation” in healthcare delivery, convenient care proponents say disruption wasn’t the goal. “We never wanted to be a primary care provider; we wanted to be a complement to primary care,” Sarah Rosenberg, deputy...
by Anne DiNardo | Mar 27, 2015 | News
Concord Medical Services (International) Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Concord Medical Services Holdings Limited (Beijing), is acquiring the Fortis Surgical Hospital (Singapore) from Fortis Healthcare International Pte Ltd. The new owner says it plans to apply...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Mar 27, 2015 | Projects
Opened to patients in November 2014 and located on the Joseph Brant Hospital campus, this new primary healthcare teaching clinic for McMaster University’s Department of Family Medicine is an interior space fit-out within a larger project. The 10,980-square-foot clinic...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Mar 26, 2015 | Trends
Perkins Eastman recently released a survey on senior living titled “An Industry Poised for Change,” including responses from around 200 not-for-profit senior living providers and industry consultants in the U.S. And what it says about the line between the healthcare...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 25, 2015 | Projects
Bangor, Maine’s Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) is the flagship medical center of Eastern Maine Health System. The EMMC modernization project, designed by MorrisSwitzer Environments for Health (Burlington, Vt.), is focused on creating opportunities for the...
by Anne DiNardo | Mar 25, 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. Anthony J. Haas is president of the American College of Healthcare Architects and a senior...
by Anne DiNardo | Mar 24, 2015 | News
Sean Gouvin, the director of facilities planning and engineering operations at the not-for-profit healthcare system, Baystate Health (Springfield, Mass.), says his 10-year-old self would never have imagined a career in facilities management. “No way,” he said during a...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 23, 2015 | Trends
Innovation requires risk; healthcare is a risk-averse industry. It’s an axiom that’s created a challenging climate for the healthcare design community—from the providers pursuing new projects to the architects who design them to the manufacturers whose products fill...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Mar 20, 2015 | Projects
Forest Park Medical Center San Antonio is a four-story, 150,000-square-foot hospital with 54 private inpatient rooms (including 16 family suites), 12 operating rooms, a cardiac catheterization lab, and six intensive care rooms. Designed by BOKA Powell (Dallas), the...
