by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 12, 2012 | Trends
I was recently asked what percentage of hospitals in the United States has started work on environmental stewardship activities. My answer is 100%. Every hospital has an action-oriented staffer who’s taken it upon themselves to do the right thing: a nurse collecting...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 8, 2012 | News
On the afternoon of Nov. 6, healthcare futurist Joe Flower predicted President Obama would see another term, and with that new term healthcare reform would see implementation. As it turned out later that night, he was correct.This was just one of a several projections...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 7, 2012 | News
Though the election results have not provided instant clarity to the healthcare reform issue, a light at the end of this very long tunnel is finally in sight. It may, however, be a very bumpy ride getting there.With the status quo...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 7, 2012 | News
Voters returned President Obama to the White House, overcoming a resistance to his agenda by Congressional Republicans, an anemic economic recovery, and a divided nation. In his defeat of Republican candidate Mitt Romney, the incumbent nearly swept the...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 6, 2012 | News
In 2009, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare recognized that healthcare reform was coming down the pike and with it the need for providers that are both efficient and effective in offering patient-centered care.“We need to understand what that means,” said...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 5, 2012 | News
Emerging results from a large study focused on the relationships between design and healthcare-associated infections (HAI) point to risks in common design materials and how design can reduce risks, researchers told attendees at the Healthcare Design conference in...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 5, 2012 | News
The Center for Health Design’s Built Environment Network (BEN) event held Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in Phoenix, Ariz., at the 2012 HEALTHCARE DESIGN conference gave attendees the opportunity gain a perspective into what the BEN is about and how the information...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 5, 2012 | News
What do The Cheesecake Factory and the University of Pennsylvania Health System have in common? It was a question Earl Marsh pondered after reading “Big Med,” an article by physician-author Atul Gawande that was published in the New Yorker and...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Nov 5, 2012 | News
In “Lessons Learned from Two Emergency Departments,” a session at the 2012 HEALTHCARE DESIGN Conference, Kathy Bell from S/L/A/M Collaborative and Wendy Weitzner from Innova Group launched right into a description of their work in expanding the ED for...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 5, 2012 | News
Preliminary results of the Benchmarking 2.0 Report for Health Care Facilities from the IFMA Health Care Institute, American Society for Healthcare Engineering, and the Canadian Healthcare Engineering Society offered a glimpse to attendees of what’s to come when...
