by HCD Guest Author | Apr 9, 2013 | News
The goal of Lean design is to eliminate waste. This isn’t a one-time effort, but a never-ending journey of continuous improvement. To determine how the built environment can foster this type of performance and process improvement, you need to identify what waste...
by Anne DiNardo | Apr 9, 2013 | News
Oftentimes interior designers, architects, and facility owners don’t fully understand the expertise and creativity that the field of environmental graphic design (EGD), an intersection of communication design and the built environment, can bring to a project....
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 8, 2013 | News
In “Designing for Daily Life with Dementia,” a Monday morning session at theEnvironments for Aging Conference in New Orleans, the speaker threw out some pretty astonishing statistics to get the ball rolling. According to Lena G. Smith, COO and...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 8, 2013 | News
The math is simple, says Jane Rohde, principal with JSR Associates: With the one-child rule in place since 1979, China is facing what’s often referred to as the “4-2-1 problem.”“Four sets of grandparents, two parents, and one child responsible...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 5, 2013 | News
While many hospital construction projects across the country have used an integrated approach to delivery, including early involvement of the construction manager, it’s not nearly as common for a formal integrated project delivery (IPD) contract to be in...
by Anne DiNardo | Apr 5, 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, Tammy Thompson, a patient, registered architect, and president of Institute...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Apr 5, 2013 | News
The UCLA Outpatient Surgery and Medical Building—a hybrid academic and community outpatient surgery, oncology treatment, and medical office facility—is a 50,000-square-foot facility designed by Michael W. Folonis Architects (Santa Monica, Calif.). The...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Apr 4, 2013 | News
When you run an annual conference—especially one as big as ours—the planning never really stops. As soon as one year’s conference wraps up, you’re working on next year’s. And after months of behind-the-scenes content wrangling and...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 4, 2013 | News
Since passage of the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 to provide affordable access to healthcare in rural areas, critical access hospitals (CAH) have continued to grow in importance.CAHs fill a unique niche in our national healthcare system. They share traits with...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 3, 2013 | Trends
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, food service has the highest energy intensity of any sector, followed by healthcare—a fair incentive for taking a closer look at energy costs related to healthcare food service operations. Healthcare facilities often place...
