by Jennifer Silvis | Feb 26, 2013 | News
Hospitals and healthcare systems across the country are struggling with what’s quickly becoming the new normal, a business environment tempered by waning reimbursements, consolidations, physician integration, and focus on quality and accountability.And at the...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Feb 26, 2013 | News
“They say everything’s bigger in Texas, and it’s true,” said Walter Jones, senior vice president of facilities for Parkland Hospital (Dallas) to the audience assembled at ASHE PDC. While the new Parkland didn’t start out as the largest...
by Jennifer Silvis | Feb 25, 2013 | News
Following an opening keynote by Paul H. Keckley, PhD, executive director, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, on the far-reaching implications of healthcare reform, a morning plenary session at the ASHE PDC Summit set the scene for how this climate has shaped, and...
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...
