by Kristin D. Zeit | Feb 25, 2013 | News
The Mario Lemieux Center for Blood Cancers is a 24,000-square-foot outpatient treatment facility located within the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center in Pittsburgh. Designed by Radelet McCarthy Polletta Architects and Interior Designers (Pittsburgh), the center was completed...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Feb 25, 2013 | Trends
Paul H. Keckley, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, offered the attendees assembled for ASHE PDC in San Francisco his perspective on where we’ve come from and where we’re going now that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a reality. His...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Feb 21, 2013 | News
The new Herman & Walter Samuelson Children's Hospital at Sinai, designed by Hord Coplan Macht, is a $29.5 million, 57,200-square-foot facility featuring 26 spacious private rooms and child-friendly design elements throughout.The design creates a new and...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Feb 21, 2013 | News
We’ve been undergoing some changes at Healthcare Design over the past year, and our January/February issue really brings that point home in more ways than one. For starters, we’ve done some renovations on our print and digital product—the magazine...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 20, 2013 | News
Much of our discussion about healthcare design has focused on the patient experience and workflow improvements, yet an often overlooked side of healthcare design is the physicians’ own workspace.As with corporate workspaces, physicians’ workspaces are...
by Jennifer Silvis | Feb 19, 2013 | News
The third annual Product Pavilion People’s Choice Awards invited attendees of the 2012 Healthcare Design Conference to vote for the products they thought featured the most innovative design—ranging from flooring to patient room marker boards.The Product...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Feb 19, 2013 | News
Developed to attract world-class scientists and support sensitive advanced diagnostics equipment, the three-story, 100,000-square-foot Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (Jupiter, Fla.) is one of very few LEED Gold-certified life sciences research...
by Jennifer Silvis | Feb 15, 2013 | News
After covering the healthcare design industry for two-plus years now, it’s occurred to me that my perception of the industry has changed quite a bit. I’ve gone from beginning to recognize critical design elements (like when I realized wayfinding...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Feb 15, 2013 | News
Golden Valley Health Center (GVHC) is a nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Center system, serving the Central Valley of California. Through a network of sites, GVHC provides comprehensive primary medical and dental care to a diverse population, including migrant and...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Feb 15, 2013 | News
As we recently reported, the Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) has released a draft of a new standard on residential care facilities, which is open for public comment until March 20. For those who design spaces for seniors, it’s a pretty promising opportunity;...
