by Kristin D. Zeit | Mar 21, 2013 | News
It’s enough to make you want to get your tonsils out again. The Royal London Children’s Hospital (London) recently unveiled a truly larger-than-life play area featuring an interactive game called Woodland Wiggle, designed by artist Chris O’Shea and...
by Anne DiNardo | Mar 20, 2013 | News
One observation I’ve made during my journey into the world of healthcare design is that there are a lot of neutral-colored care centers for adults. While children’s hospitals are bursting at the seams with rainbow-inspired lobbies, decorative floor motifs,...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 20, 2013 | News
Completion date: October 2012Owner: The Nemours Foundation Architecture: Stanley Beaman & Sears (architect-of-record), Perkins+Will (associate architect) Interior architecture/interior design: Stanley Beaman & Sears/Perkins+Will Furniture...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 19, 2013 | News
The new Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando, Fla., situated on a 60-acre greenfield site, is surrounded by well-landscaped scenery, continuing the legacy of its sister hospital in Wilmington, Del.The hospital’s founder, Alfred I. duPont, built a classic...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 19, 2013 | News
Cancer survival rates are on the rise, thanks to advancements in treatments as well as personalized cancer care that’s stepped out of the acute care environment and into community outpatient centers across the country.And while great strides have been made to...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 18, 2013 | News
While the high-end assisted living market was booming a decade ago, the housing market crash several years back, combined with aging in place trends, has produced very a different situation in 2013. Of course, the baby boomers—also known as the “silver...
by Anne DiNardo | Mar 15, 2013 | News
With a service area that covers 47 percent of the expansive state of Texas, Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth draws patients from as far west as El Paso and as far south as Austin. That often meant its 55-bed neonatal intensive care unit, one of the...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Mar 15, 2013 | Trends
The Good Samaritan Regional Health Center is a 382,000-square-foot replacement hospital in Mt. Vernon, Ill., designed by BSA LifeStructures. The 134-bed hospital, was completed and occupied in January 2013. Measurable improvements are expected across a number of...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 14, 2013 | News
The idea: Mount Sinai Hospital Queens, a 235-bed licensed adult acute care facility in Astoria, N.Y., wanted to upgrade its outdated and cramped double- and multiple-occupancy patient rooms to single-patient rooms, responding to informal patient surveys on room...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 14, 2013 | Trends
While assisted living and continuing care retirement community (CCRC) developers were going like gangbusters a few short years ago, the picture is quite different today. Granted, there’s still an estimated 77 million aging baby boomers. But a combination of the...
