by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 16, 2014 | Projects
Kaiser Permanente shook up the healthcare design industry a few years back when it tasked designers to envision what the future of acute care might look like in its Small Hospital, Big Idea Competition. On Saturday of the 2014 Healthcare Design Conference in San...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 16, 2014 | Projects
Eskenazi Health employs a range of strategies at the Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital to connect to nature and encourage healthy lifestyles, from its calming interior that incorporates plentiful daylighting to the outdoor spaces that can be viewed from numerous...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Nov 16, 2014 | News
The 12th annual Healthcare Design Conference officially kicked off yesterday, with workshops, networking receptions, and on-site tours of recent healthcare projects in and around our host city of San Diego. And today, we dive into the educational sessions in earnest,...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 16, 2014 | Projects
“I can do this if I transfer here.” That’s the thought a 31-year-old cancer patient had when she walked into the Douglas + Nancy Barnhart Cancer Center at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center for the first time. The patient had just undergone her first...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 15, 2014 | Projects
Indianapolis’ public safety-net hospital has gone through multiple name changes—starting as City Hospital in 1859 and changing to Indianapolis General and Wishard Memorial before becoming Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital in 2013. But during all those years—and name...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 13, 2014 | Projects
Public safety-net hospitals are used to focusing on the needs of their communities, bringing a range of services to a diverse patient population. However, five years ago, Wishard Memorial Hospital found itself turning to its Indianapolis community for help. The...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 12, 2014 | Trends
In the past, we’ve learned about hospital design in China from the surface only. It’s been perceived that design decisions are made based on social, cultural, and economic drivers—or, simply, based on how it’s always been done. In actuality, the reasons for design...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 12, 2014 | Projects
A new garden filled with a profusion of plants on a second-floor terrace at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland, Ore., provides a lush setting to test the impact—for patients, visitors, and hospital staff—of a therapeutic nature space on hospital grounds. The...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 12, 2014 | Trends
Long before healthcare reform ever pressed the need to rethink the way patient rooms are designed, NXT Health and executive director Salley Whitman recognized that the complexity of healthcare had resulted in a lack of innovation in our care environments. Launched in...
