by HCD Guest Author | Jun 24, 2013 | News
Nowhere in the nation do the three components of healthcare’s Triple Aim—better patient experience, better health of populations, and lower per capita costs—become more visible than in rural communities. Local hospitals play an important role in...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Jun 21, 2013 | News
The ribbon had barely been cut on a new fetal intervention suite when surgeon-in-chief Dr. Timothy Crombleholme scrubbed in to remove a life-threatening bronchogenic cyst from a baby before it was even fully born. With the fetus delivered only halfway (from the chest...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jun 20, 2013 | News
When The Beryl Institute released its inaugural The State of Patient Experience report in 2011, those words “patient experience,” while plenty important, didn’t quite hold the heft they do today.Two years later, healthcare organizations across the...
by Anne DiNardo | Jun 19, 2013 | News
Not every project comes with the opportunity to push boundaries. But that’s exactly what GBBN Architecture (Cincinnati) was given when it partnered with Mercy Fairfield on the fit out of a fifth floor shell space into an acute care unit. The intention was to...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jun 19, 2013 | News
The results of Healthcare Design’s 2013 Corporate Rankings Survey* are in, showing what architecture/engineering and construction firms rose to the top in 2012, based on several categories.Companies were ranked by number of healthcare projects completed in...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 19, 2013 | Trends
In 2009, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a report showing that the American healthcare sector accounts for nearly one-tenth of the country’s carbon dioxide emissions, the largest contributor to global climate change of any industry sector....
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 18, 2013 | News
By nature, we as healthcare architects design to incorporate trends in delivery of care, facility requests, and code requirements. But do we really understand how design affects staff, patients, and families?Over the past two years, I've had my share of personal...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Jun 17, 2013 | News
With the launch of its new Prime TC wheelchair last week, the creative partnership of medical technology company Stryker and architect Michael Graves took the next step in Graves’ mission to improve healthcare design. The Prime TC certainly looks...
by Anne DiNardo | Jun 14, 2013 | News
I’ve attended Neocon several times in my 10-plus years covering design, but this was my first visit looking at the show through the eyes of healthcare. Walking away from this week’s event, three topics were clearly top of mind: senior living spaces,...
by Anne DiNardo | Jun 13, 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, Frank Zilm, Chester Dean lecturer on healthcare design, University of...
