by Kristin D. Zeit | Jul 11, 2014 | Trends
Surrey & Borders NHS Foundation Trust in the U.K. hosts a modest mental health inpatient population with a large community-based service. Because not all care can be provided effectively on a dispersed model, in 2010 the trust identified the need for a new...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jul 10, 2014 | Trends
David Duff, senior vice president and director of China healthcare at VOA Associates Inc. (Chicago), compared Chinese and U.S. healthcare practices and design at The 3rd Summit Forum of Chinese and Overseas Hospital Architects, part of the 15th Hospital Build and...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jul 9, 2014 | Trends
East Tennessee Children’s Hospital (ETCH) will open a new 245,000-square-foot surgery and NICU expansion in August 2016. The addition will house 152 beds, including a NICU, consolidated perioperative services, and new clinical exam rooms.Once the expansion is...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jul 9, 2014 | Trends
Lean, green, and team were topics for discussion by Craig Beale, executive vice president and global healthcare director for HKS (Dallas), in a presentation to attendees at The 3rd Summit Forum of Chinese and Overseas Hospital Architects, part of the 15th Hospital...
by Anne DiNardo | Jul 8, 2014 | Trends
In this series, Healthcare Design asks leading healthcare design professionals, firms, and owners to tell us what’s got their attention and share some ideas on the subject.David Surette is director of healthcare and life sciences at Shawmut Design and...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Jul 8, 2014 | Trends
This just in: Hospital elevator buttons carry more bacteria than toilet surfaces. Gross, yes. But it’s not really that surprising, is it? Like doorknobs, shared toys/books in waiting rooms, faucet handles, etc., it’s just another well-used surface that we all need to...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 7, 2014 | Trends
Achieving operational readiness in healthcare building projects St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton’s West 5th Campus, a 214-bed mental health facility in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, needed a change. The majority of its patient bedrooms—including minimum and medium...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 7, 2014 | Trends
Evidence-based design is driving best practices in the U.S., but can we expect similar outcomes when research conducted here is applied abroad? This is an important question to start answering given the large number of healthcare projects around the world being...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 7, 2014 | Trends
As a healthcare interior designer working with an integrated team of architects and medical planners, I often begin a patient unit project by meeting with clients, caregivers, and user groups to map existing operational processes and identify opportunities for...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Jul 3, 2014 | Trends
The new 140,000-square-foot Hirair and Anna Hovnanian Emergency Care Center at Ocean Medical Center (OMC) in Brick, N.J., was designed by WHR Architects. The ED occupies the first floor of a new three-story hospital building that deploys the material palette of the...
