by HCD Guest Author | Dec 30, 2014 | Trends
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more beleaguered Cabinet-level agency in 2014 than the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Revelations of mismanagement, some with fatal results, as well as reported overruns on VA hospital projects averaging in the hundreds of...
by HCD Guest Author | Dec 26, 2014 | Projects
This article was originally published on May 7, 2014, and is among Healthcare Design’s Top 10 most-read articles of 2014. To see a full list, click here. Long recognizing the limitations of the typical institutional model of psychiatric care, the 178-year-old...
by HCD Guest Author | Dec 26, 2014 | Trends
This article was originally published on May 28, 2014, and is among Healthcare Design’s Top 10 most-read articles of 2014. To see a full list, click here. Patients’ healthcare experiences are largely driven by their clinical outcomes, their interactions with...
by Jennifer Silvis | Dec 24, 2014 | Trends
This article was originally published on Dec. 4, 2014, and is among Healthcare Design’s Top 10 most-read articles of 2014. To see a full list, click here. The patient room of today is a far cry from what was built just 50 years ago. But its evolution isn’t...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Dec 24, 2014 | Projects
This article was originally published on Feb. 28, 2014, and is among Healthcare Design’s Top 10 most-read articles of 2014. To see a full list, click here. Using Kaiser Permanente’s template system, the new 490,000-square-foot, seven-story hospital and bed...
by HCD Guest Author | Dec 23, 2014 | Projects
This article was originally published on Feb. 12, 2014, and is among Healthcare Design’s Top 10 most-read articles of 2014. To see a full list, click here. Emergency departments across the nation are constantly faced with increasing and unpredictable patient...
by HCD Guest Author | Dec 23, 2014 | Projects
This article was originally published on April 25, 2014, and is among Healthcare Design’s Top 10 most-read articles of 2014. To see a full list, click here. From its stunning façade to its project delivery process, the new Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton,...
by Anne DiNardo | Dec 22, 2014 | Trends
The trend to bring natural light and views to nature into healthcare spaces has been making the rounds. Patient rooms are being built with expansive windows. Cafeterias have views to the outdoors and sometimes even access to outdoor gardens and respite areas. Staff...
by Anne DiNardo | Dec 22, 2014 | Projects
Founded in 1978, Whitman-Walker Health’s roots are in serving individuals who face barriers to accessing care, starting as the Gay Men’s VD Clinic and evolving to become Washington, D.C.’s primary HIV clinic. But as the healthcare marketplace has shifted over...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Dec 22, 2014 | Projects
The first new hospital built in Montgomery County, Maryland, in 35 years, Holy Cross Germantown is also the first hospital constructed on a community college campus. This partnership between Montgomery College and the Trinity Health/Holy Cross system will expand...
