by HCD Guest Author | Jan 29, 2013 | News
Whether it’s taking care of a required physical exam, finding out if an injury requires an X-ray, diagnosing an ear infection, or getting a needed prescription for antibiotics, retail centers are quickly becoming the go-to place for minor medical...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Jan 29, 2013 | News
With the way the population is aging, everyone who designs and builds healthcare spaces is involved in designing for the senior market. Facilities that specifically cater to the elderly will have to expand and grow; other facilities, from doctors’ offices to...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Jan 28, 2013 | News
The Kaleida Health Gates Vascular Institute/SUNY at Buffalo Clinical Translational Research Center was developed by the private Kaleida Health system and the public SUNY system and designed by Cannon Design. It’s a 10-story, 475,000-square-foot building using a...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 28, 2013 | News
In the United States, most healthcare design projects are driven by very concrete metrics: schedule, cost, code, and pro-forma, to name a few. Often the program is in place before the first user group meeting, with very little wiggle room for study, interviews, or...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 28, 2013 | News
It doesn’t pay to incorporate a broken process into a new building, so say administrators at Children’s Medical Center Dallas and Children’s of Alabama. When designing their new facilities, they set out to do things differently. These two...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 25, 2013 | News
The battle over infection prevention has been waged on most surfaces, materials, and equipment in the patient room. The quest to curb hospital-borne infections has made patient rooms easier to clean and created processes that remove materials that may be home to...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 24, 2013 | News
Following the devastating earthquake in 2010, Haiti now faces another epidemic: cholera, a disease that’s infected more than 530,000 Haitian citizens. Spread through contaminated food or water, cholera kills more than 100,000 people each year despite the fact...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 24, 2013 | News
The healthcare industry is consolidating before our very eyes. Hardly a day goes by where a quick scan of headlines doesn’t reveal another new affiliation, acquisition, or physician realignment. Here in Cleveland, it’s tough to drive, well, anywhere...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Jan 24, 2013 | News
An airborne infection isolation (Aii) room is designed with negative pressurization to protect patients and people outside the room from the spread of microorganisms transmitted by airborne droplet nuclei (small-particle residue of evaporated droplets containing...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 24, 2013 | News
Despite all the uncertainly created with the Affordable Care Act, many of our healthcare design clients continue to heal and recover from the jolt in 2008 and 2009. Many have staffing levels that match, or in some cases exceed, levels from four years...
