by HCD Guest Author | Jul 30, 2013 | News
Project category: New construction (completed February 2012)Chief administrator: Kellie Thames, Practice Administrator, (512) 978-9353Firm: Lawrence Group Architects, Inc., (512) 391-1932Design team: Raymond Chan, Civil (Chan & Partners); Jerry Garcia, Structural...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 30, 2013 | News
Project category: Project in progress (July 2015)Chief administrator: Deborah Hayes, VP & Chief Hospital Officer/CNO, (513) 585-0557Firm: SOM Ohio LLC, (312) 554-9090Design team: Local Associate (Champlin Architecture); MEP/Fire Protection Engineering Consultant...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 30, 2013 | News
Project category: New construction (completed June 2012)Chief administrator: Mike Warren, CEO, (205) 939-9895Firms: HKS, Inc., (214) 969-5599; Giattina Aycock Studio, (205) 933-9060Design team: Architecture and Interiors (HKS, Inc.); Associate Architect (GA...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 30, 2013 | News
Among healthcare clients, a keen focus on improving the patient experience and satisfaction is the new normal. This focus has evolved to be one of the primary evaluation criteria for building owners when assessing facility improvements and construction projects....
by Jennifer Silvis | Jul 29, 2013 | News
Back in 2011, Peter Bardwell, 2013 president of the American College of Healthcare Architects, and A. Ray Pentecost III, 2013 president of the International Academy for Design and Health, put together a list of 10 forces they saw changing healthcare design.At the...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Jul 29, 2013 | News
The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York recently opened a new $120 million, 130,000-square-foot pavilion. Designed by MorrisSwitzer Environments for Health (Boston), the six-story addition provides an opportunity to expand and...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 26, 2013 | News
A mother of a pediatric patient once asked our hospital design team for direction and diversion: “Get me to where I have to go, and make me forget why I’m going there.” It’s a simple request, but in reality, a very tall order.Visitors to...
by Anne DiNardo | Jul 25, 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.Here, Walter Jones, senior vice president of facilities planning and development,...
by Anne DiNardo | Jul 24, 2013 | News
Pursuing LEED is the best investment you can make in building new, says Breeze Glazer, associate, research knowledge manager, Perkins+Will (New York), and Gail Vittori, co-director, Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems (Austin, Texas). Why?For one, it...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jul 23, 2013 | News
Infection control is a critical issue for any hospital. And for Loie Ruhl, infection prevention specialist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, having evidence readily available to support her initiatives in protecting environments under construction was a goal she...
