by HCD Guest Author | Feb 6, 2015 | Trends
In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the unique characteristics of the Millennial generation, followed in Part 2 by imagining the Apple-like experience that might be their ideal outpatient care encounter. But what happens when the Millennial becomes a caregiver and...
by Anne DiNardo | Feb 6, 2015 | News
Sean Gouvin Director of facilities planning and engineering operations, Baystate Health (Springfield, Mass.) Who he is: As director of facilities planning and engineering for the not-for-profit healthcare system, Gouvin oversees planning, design, maintenance, and...
by Jennifer Silvis | Feb 5, 2015 | News
Jennie Evans, RN, BS, EDAC, LEED AP, Lean Six Sigma CE 2013-2014 president, Nursing Institute of Healthcare Design (NIHD); associate principal and senior vice president, HKS (Dallas) Who she is: Evans began her career 27 years ago as a bone marrow transplant/ICU nurse...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 4, 2015 | Trends
Over the last decade, we’ve been hearing a lot about the need to right-size our healthcare environments, and both hospital organizations and the healthcare design community have made attempts to do so with very mixed success. However, this commitment to right-sizing...
by Anne DiNardo | Feb 4, 2015 | News
Christine Hester Devens, IIDA, LEED AP Associate principal, interior project designer, AECOM (Minneapolis) Who she is: Devens’ 25-plus-year-career has focused almost exclusively on healthcare design, allowing her to foster long-term relationships with several clients...
by Anne DiNardo | Feb 3, 2015 | News
Upali Nanda, PhD, Associate AIA, EDAC Vice president and director of research, HKS (Houston); executive director of the Center for Advanced Design Research and Education (CADRE) Who she is: Throughout her career—spanning from a large healthcare art firm to The Center...
by Anne DiNardo | Feb 2, 2015 | Projects
Last summer, as the Ebola virus continued to make headlines and the World Health Organization declared the outbreak—which spread primarily in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—a public health emergency of international concern, architect George Mann, a professor at...
by Jennifer Silvis | Feb 2, 2015 | News
Paul Strohm, ACHA, AIA Senior vice president, director of healthcare, HOK (St. Louis) Who he is: With 35 years under his belt as a healthcare architect, Strohm is one of HOK’s three directors of healthcare, responsible for the planning and design firm’s global...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Feb 2, 2015 | News
To paraphrase the great Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap: This one goes to 11. The third annual HCD 10, as always, honors a group of individuals and organizations that made a significant mark on the healthcare design landscape over the past year. We have 10 categories,...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Jan 30, 2015 | Projects
The new Scripps Critical Care Building, designed by Perkins+Will, was completed in September 2014 to serve residents of the seaside community of Encinitas, Calif. The project consists of a new, two-story critical care building and central energy plant, connected to...
