by Jennifer Silvis | Oct 22, 2014 | Projects
A 65,000-square-foot health center will be the anchor of downtown Brooklyn, N.Y.’s 620 Fulton, a new mixed-use building in an up-and-coming cultural district of New York. In planning and designing the health center, the client emphasized a highly collaborative,...
by Anne DiNardo | Oct 21, 2014 | Trends
For the past three years, the International Interior Design Association (IIDA; Chicago) has honored originality and excellence in the design and furnishings of healthcare interior spaces through its Healthcare Interior Design Competition. Past winners have included...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 21, 2014 | Projects
In 2009, WellStar Paulding Hospital in Hiram, Ga., just outside Atlanta, was facing a dramatic growth in its local population, with an average 3.45 percent increase expected annually in Paulding County over the next five years. This reality pushed the need to consider...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Oct 17, 2014 | Projects
The Southdown Institute is a charitable organization that provides mental health and addictions assessment and treatment programs to the international religious community. The focus of the care centers is to promote health and well-being through the integration of...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 16, 2014 | Trends
In 2012, the leadership for Munson Medical Center in Traverse City, Mich., decided to address its confusing wayfinding system—again. They’d tried before in 2006, redesigning a system of colored floor lines into one anchored by public elevator cores and a new...
by Anne DiNardo | Oct 14, 2014 | Projects
When NYU Langone Medical Center embarked on a multi-phased expansion and renovation project in 2011, part of the plan was to keep the ground-level emergency department open during construction. But 20 months into the project, Hurricane Sandy hit, filling the...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Oct 14, 2014 | Trends
As we all track the Ebola story with acute interest and concern, healthcare design industry professionals (like everyone else in healthcare) are struggling to consider ways in which they might be able to stem the spread of disease within the care environment. When a...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 13, 2014 | Trends
In an effort to contain rising employee healthcare costs and attract and retain talent, more and more corporations are opening up healthcare clinics right inside their office buildings. While the concept of on-site healthcare has been around for some time, with many...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Oct 10, 2014 | News
Inspired by a young cancer patient named Hendo who underwent two bone marrow transplants before dying at age 3, the Institute for Patient-Centered Design launched its Family-Centered Cancer Care Design Competition this year. The mission for designers: Address key...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Oct 10, 2014 | News
Now it its third year, Healthcare Design’s HCD 10 Awards will once again honor those who’ve made a significant mark on our industry over the past 12 months. Because any given design project—be it a waiting room remodel or multibuilding wellness campus—is a team...
