by HCD Guest Author | Jun 27, 2013 | News
If you know where to look for healthcare products at NeoCon, you’ll find plenty of them.The annual exposition of commercial furnishings, fabrics, flooring, lighting, and accessories held at The Merchandise Mart in June featured more than 500,000 square feet of...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jun 26, 2013 | News
When patients arrive late for appointments, frequently stop staff for directions, or flat-out complain about getting lost, you know a wayfinding program isn’t working. Too often something isn’t jibing in transitions between Parking Garage A, Patient Tower...
by Anne DiNardo | Jun 25, 2013 | News
The American Medical Association (AMA) made headlines this month during its House of Delegates Annual Meeting when it announced a new policy recognizing obesity as a disease.“The purpose of the policy is to advance obesity treatment and prevention,” AMA...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jun 24, 2013 | News
On Oct. 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy slammed into the eastern seaboard of the U.S., decimating parts of New York and New Jersey while extending its reach of destruction as far north as Canada and as far south as North Carolina. But for the healthcare industry, New York...
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....
