by Jennifer Silvis | Dec 4, 2014 | News
There are few topics in healthcare right now that are as hot as the shift to ambulatory environments. Providers are focusing on more distributed networks that reach into communities to provide easily accessible care to patients and help answer population health...
by HCD Guest Author | Dec 3, 2014 | Trends
The design, development, and construction of sophisticated buildings relies on a variety of tools. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is one method that’s been growing in popularity among the architecture, engineering, and construction industries as healthcare...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Dec 2, 2014 | News
It’s been a rough road in a lot of ways for Palomar Medical Center (PMC) in Escondido, Calif., which opened in August 2012 and touted itself as the “hospital of the future.” Costing just shy of $1 billion (partially funded by a voter-approved $496 million bond issue),...
by Jennifer Silvis | Dec 2, 2014 | Projects
Arriving in Changsha, China, for the first time, one can’t mistake the city’s embrace of its natural surroundings and love of nature. River parks dominate the landscape and urban blocks seamlessly flow into parks throughout the capital of China’s Hunan Province....
by HCD Guest Author | Dec 1, 2014 | Trends
In a recent conversation with Jason Schroer, director of the Houston office of HKS, he posed an interesting question that made me think deeply about research in healthcare design and, in particular, evidence-based design. He drew a parallel between our field and the...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 26, 2014 | News
After four days packed with facility tours, workshops, educational sessions, and exhibit hall hours, attendees of the 2014 Healthcare Design Conference held in San Diego Nov. 15-18 were left with some inspiring last words—and a charge to action. In the closing...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 26, 2014 | News
Nearing the one-year anniversary of the opening of the Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital in Indianapolis, members of the design team took part in a roundtable discussion at this year’s Healthcare Design Conference in San Diego to share how new design features and...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Nov 25, 2014 | Projects
St. Joseph Internal Medicine’s new medical office building was completed in October 2014. The practice in this $6.2 million building is an accredited patient-centered medical home with both NCQA and Stage A for Medicaid. Twenty providers and 50 exam rooms are...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 25, 2014 | Trends
In the first installment of this series, I discussed some of the unique attributes of Millennials that are shaping the way we design healthcare environments. Let’s now consider the role this generation plays as patients. It’s exciting (and a bit disconcerting) to...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 20, 2014 | Projects
Project source list: Completion date: December 2013 Owner: Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion County, parent company of Eskenazi Health Total building area: 882,346 SF (hospital); 198,435 SF (ambulatory care building); 12,600 SF (central utility plant); 23,300 SF...
