by Anne DiNardo | Sep 11, 2013 | News
The Tata Medical Centre Cancer Hospital opened in 2011, in Rajarhat, Kolkata, India, but locals tell the design team it looks like the facility has always been there. “It has a sense of place,” says Jayashri Deshmukh, senior associate, Cannon Design...
by Anne DiNardo | Sep 10, 2013 | News
The launch of the iPhone 5S has people talking about all things Apple again. One of the articles that popped up in my Twitter feed titled, “Timeless Branding Lessons From A Young Steve Jobs,” by Drake Baer of Fast Company, caught my attention since...
by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 10, 2013 | News
Breaking from traditional approaches to hospice care that are often modeled after skilled-nursing settings, AG Architecture Inc. (Wauwatosa, Wis.) worked with Haven Hospice to pursue a new design direction by bringing resident-centered care to the Homer J. Sr. &...
by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 10, 2013 | News
When NBBJ (Seattle) was hired to design the Chief Andrew Isaac Health Center (CAIHC) in Fairbanks, Alaska, the firm was already familiar with creating healthcare facilities for Alaskan natives, having previously conducted an 18-month cultural study that informed the...
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...
