by Anne DiNardo | Sep 6, 2013 | News
With a goal to bring care closer to the community and expand its network, Mercy Health opened the Rookwood Medical Center adjacent to a major freeway in a central area of Cincinnati in July 2013. The highly visible location, along with a bold façade and triangular...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 6, 2013 | News
Much has been written about the health benefits of breastfeeding to infants—and mothers—but there’s also a larger benefit to society. The Office of Women’s Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, reports that if 90 percent of...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 6, 2013 | Trends
When Kaiser Permanente decided to open a medical office building in Portland, Ore., one site in particular caught the health system’s eye. A former location of now-defunct consumer electronics retailer Circuit City, the one-story, 32,000-square-foot structure in the...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 5, 2013 | News
In May, I had the opportunity to speak at the 14th China Hospital Construction Forum, which was held during the Hospital Build & Infrastructure China Exhibition & Congress in Nanjing, just a few hours outside of Shanghai. While there, I also met the next...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 4, 2013 | News
In this series, Healthcare Design magazine asks leading healthcare design professionals, firms, and owners to tell us what’s got their attention and share some ideas on the subject.Bill Kline is an architect and vice president with SmithGroupJJR’s...
by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 3, 2013 | News
The idea: What’s known today as the Hoover Pavilion originally opened in 1931 as the Palo Alto Hospital. Stanford University operated the hospital and eventually purchased it in the late 1960s, converting it to medical office space. The building served in this...
by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 30, 2013 | News
Oftentimes the healthcare design industry at large is asked to think a whole lot about the “B” side of an “A-to-B” scenario.Clients might ask designers to take an outdated inpatient unit and renovate it to become a modern care setting, or ask a...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Aug 30, 2013 | News
In March 2013, Lourdes Health System opened LourdesCare (Cherry Hill, N.J.), a 55,000-square-foot state-of-the-art ambulatory care center. Lourdes Health System worked with Environetics (Philadelphia), an architecture, interior design, and engineer firm, to convert a...
by Anne DiNardo | Aug 29, 2013 | News
Thomas Goetz has an issue with whiteboards. Specifically, how such a large piece of equipment in a hospital ward—and one that’s chock full of important information—seems to be almost an afterthought.“No one seems to have thought of that as a...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Aug 28, 2013 | News
“We are all children in the face of illness—scared, ignorant, and impulsive—and we should be treated as such.”So says Mark Attiah, a student at Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, in a letter that was published in the...
