by HCD Guest Author | Sep 19, 2013 | News
Clinical approaches to behavioral healthcare treatment have evolved over the past couple of decades. Although still challenged by a negative social stigma, substance addiction and mental illness today are more often viewed as manageable diseases than character...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 18, 2013 | News
Healthcare reform is pushing organizations across the country to rethink their operations. As such, many owners are planning off-campus outpatient centers that integrate ambulatory services into a single facility located close to where people live.These “big...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 18, 2013 | News
The role of the hospital campus as the “mother ship” of all services is changing. For some operators, the goal of bringing care closer to patients means adding new types of facilities to their network.Mervyn Alphonso, managing director of development,...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 17, 2013 | News
Controlled studies confirm that contact with the natural environment can alleviate stress, relax blood pressure, and even reduce the need for pain medication. So it isn’t surprising that many designers strive to organize outpatient cancer centers around natural...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Sep 17, 2013 | Trends
It wasn’t that long ago that green design—applied and accepted on a widespread scale—was the next big thing. And it wasn’t long after that that the term “greenwashing” entered the lexicon, as companies offered up vague claims of green/sustainable/energy-conserving...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Sep 13, 2013 | News
Castle Rock Adventist Hospital opened in August 2013 in Castle Rock, Colo., and was designed and built by Orlando, Fla.-based HuntonBrady Architects. Hospital leaders applied their faith-based mission to features such as a large community garden, a locavore-driven...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 13, 2013 | News
Whether serving in his previous role of executive editor at Wired magazine, as a book author, or in his current position as entrepreneur-in-residence at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Thomas Goetz has maintained a keen focus on the world of healthcare. In...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Sep 12, 2013 | News
Healthcare Design has a number of sister publications, all healthcare related, covering everything from clinical research and practices to the exploding market of healthcare information technology. Since healthcare is at the core of them all, there are common threads...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 12, 2013 | News
At first mention, the words “concrete” and “affordable elegance” don’t sound like a natural fit for a healthcare setting. But they were put to the test when The Everett Clinic (TEC; Everett, Wash.) embarked on its first Lean project,...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 11, 2013 | News
I’ve seen the future of healthcare facility design and it’s an office. That may be an exaggeration, but the increasing use of wireless technologies and computers by healthcare professionals to diagnose and treat patients requires that we create different...
