by Kristin D. Zeit | Jan 17, 2014 | News
Available research on hospital healing gardens and outdoor spaces has indicated that despite several health benefits of access to nature for staff, patients, and family members, these amenities are not being used to their fullest capacity. Previous researchers have...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 15, 2014 | News
You may have noticed over the past year or so that we’ve been covering the design of behavioral health (BH) facilities with more frequency here at Healthcare Design. It’s not necessarily something we set out to do but instead happened rather organically.As...
by Anne DiNardo | Jan 14, 2014 | News
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.Quentin Elliott is director of healthcare design at Moody Nolan (Columbus, Ohio). Here, he...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 13, 2014 | News
It isn’t a desirable expansion, yet the number of cancer patients in the United States is growing. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cancer accounts for approximately 580,000 deaths annually in the U.S., second only to heart disease...
by Anne DiNardo | Jan 10, 2014 | News
In Healthcare Design’s December issue, I wrote an update on building materials and the desire for more transparency as the industry moves beyond a single attribute and looks for a broader understanding of what materials are made of.“There are so many...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Jan 10, 2014 | News
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is recognized worldwide for its care, tending everyone from the very smallest of NICU patients up through twentysomething-aged survivors of pediatric cancers. This latter group is an interesting one—I...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 9, 2014 | News
At the beginning of 2014, Jeff Stouffer was named director of HKS Inc.’s (Dallas) healthcare practice. He succeeds Craig Beale, who served as director for 12 years and is continuing with the firm as part of its four-member executive committee and overseeing...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 9, 2014 | News
Englewood, Colo.’s Craig Hospital needed an update. After decades of working with patients two or three to a room and staff coping with closet-sized makeshift work spaces, senior leadership was looking for a modern facility to offer the best technology for...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 7, 2014 | News
Hospitals seeking to eliminate revenue losses while simultaneously boosting process efficiency and patient care levels are discovering the benefits of Lean design for their clinical and nonclinical departments.Lean design identifies, locates, and removes operational...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 7, 2014 | News
It often takes a personal experience to really drive home the key issues of healthcare design. Recently, I accompanied a close family member for outpatient surgery. It was considered outpatient because it involved a less-than-24-hour stay in the hospital. In reality,...
