by Kristin D. Zeit | Sep 4, 2014 | Trends
Hospice care is a tricky topic in the U.S., where youth is king and reminders of mortality are hastily shoved out of frame in favor of kitty videos and celebrity offspring sightings. But the nature of hospice environments and palliative care in general must be faced...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Sep 2, 2014 | Trends
REHAB IN AISLE 6 Rockford Orthopedic Associates, Rockford, Ill. A few years ago, having outgrown its main facility in Rockford, Ill., Rockford Orthopedic Associates considered expanding its existing building to deliver more services to more patients needing orthopedic...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Aug 29, 2014 | Trends
Park Nicollet’s renovation of its 40,000-square-foot Family Birth Center on the Methodist Hospital campus in St. Louis Park, Minn., was led by Minneapolis-based AECOM, which provided medical planning, interior architecture and design, and schematic mechanical...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 28, 2014 | Trends
Project category: New construction & Remodel/renovationChief administrator: Cathy Kopy, executive director, Todd Cancer InstituteFirm: c|a Architects, www.c-aarchitects.comDesign team: Ric Hammond, AIA, ACHA, LEED AP, principal-in-charge; David Smith, AIA,...
by Anne DiNardo | Aug 26, 2014 | Trends
A stable power supply and a temperature-controlled environment are essential to maintaining a data center. In a study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, “2013 Study on Data Center Outages,” 85 percent of 584 survey participants reported that their...
by Anne DiNardo | Aug 25, 2014 | Trends
A significant amount of information is being generated in healthcare these days, as part of its transition to a technology-driven industry. All that material—electronic health records (EHRs), test results, emails, private communications, and research—needs...
by Anne DiNardo | Aug 22, 2014 | Trends
Basset Healthcare Network (Cooperstown, N.Y.) faced an outdated medical facility that could no longer accommodate patient demand and clinic growth for residents of Cobleskill and Schoharie County, N.Y. An inefficient layout and inconvenient location compounded...
by Anne DiNardo | Aug 21, 2014 | Trends
Data centers are on the minds of a lot of healthcare organizations these days for a host of reasons. For one, there’s been a massive boom in the last decade of data—electronic medical records (EMRs), test results, emails, private communications, and...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 21, 2014 | Trends
In a 2013 market review, New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC) of North Carolina identified the need for a new 29,000-square-foot, 10-examination room emergency facility in northern New Hanover County, N.C. The region is undergoing rapid growth and is popular...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 20, 2014 | Trends
Generation gaps are nothing new. The term itself was popularized in the 1960s, as the huge baby boom generation began to influence all aspects of American society. Now another huge generation—the Millennials (those born after 1980)—is moving into adulthood...
