by Anne DiNardo | Jun 6, 2013 | News
Nursing staff are on the frontline when it comes to witnessing the rise in obesity in the U.S.A few years ago, employees at Cincinnati-based Mercy Health began to regularly see patients who weighed 450 pounds and more. In conjunction, injury rates and patient handling...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 5, 2013 | News
If you walk the streets of Paris, you’ll quickly notice the prevalence of street cafés and the bustling activity that surrounds them at all hours. Far more than just a place to get a bite to eat or a cup of coffee, they’re a neighborhood destination...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Jun 4, 2013 | News
At the new Colorado Institute for Maternal and Fetal Health (CIMFH) outpost at Children’s Hospital Colorado, the designers included a full kitchen, accessible to all patients and their visitors in this highly specialized care unit. Almost immediately after...
by Anne DiNardo | Jun 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.Here, Jean Hansen, sustainable interiors manager, senior professional associate,...
by Anne DiNardo | May 31, 2013 | News
The topic of aging and long-term care is certain to stay on our radar screens as Baby Boomers grow older and the population in general lives longer into its golden years.With that comes concern about dementia, which increases with age. In the U.S. alone, the cost of...
by Jennifer Silvis | May 30, 2013 | News
It’s an era of healthcare worker shortages. From physicians getting out of primary care medicine to baby boomer nurses approaching retirement to newly insured individuals growing the overall patient population, there are all too many reasons to take notice.With...
by HCD Guest Author | May 30, 2013 | News
As hospitals scramble to bolster primary care staff, healthcare executives are discovering that the pool of eligible workers is rapidly shrinking into a sellers’ market. CareerBuilder reported in a recent healthcare study that the second most challenging...
by HCD Guest Author | May 30, 2013 | News
Most of us think of female chickens that run around a barnyard when we hear the word “hen.” But in healthcare these days, HEN stands for hospital engagement network—something that 3,700 hospitals across America are participating in to identify...
by Kristin D. Zeit | May 29, 2013 | News
It would be funny if it weren’t so scary—and more than a little sad. At North Shore University Hospital on Long Island, reports the New York Times, sensors and cameras are being used to monitor staff hand-washing. And don’t even think about just...
by HCD Guest Author | May 29, 2013 | News
The Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children (BRHFC) in Birmingham, Ala., a new landmark on the city’s landscape, is the largest single healthcare project built to date in the state of Alabama. With 332 beds plus 48 bassinets, the $400 million, 760,000-square-foot...
