by HCD Guest Author | Aug 10, 2012 | News
Project category: New construction (completed July 2011)Chief Administrator: Mr. Jon Jackson, Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Office, (913) 588-1289Firm: Cannon Design, (410) 234-1155Design team: J. Kent Muirhead, AIA, Project Designer (Cannon Design);...
by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 8, 2012 | News
For Flad Architects, building a new emergency department (ED) for the staff of Mercy Medical Center–North Iowa meant building with the staff. Working within a Lean 3P quality system and utilizing a large-scale kaizen event, Mercy and Flad gathered a team of...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 8, 2012 | News
Ask almost any nurse where they want patient care supplies and medications, and they will most likely say inside or just outside the patient room. Considering the mounting research from the past several years on how much time a nurse spends away from the bedside...
by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 7, 2012 | News
Today, it’s a “do-more-with-less” world in healthcare. It gets even more complicated with funding shortfalls. How can today’s hospitals achieve highest value from their capital improvement programs despite inevitable spending barriers? It is a...
by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 6, 2012 | News
In the not-too-distant past, the climb up the corporate ladder for many executives included a couple of strategic relocations. Most companies assumed that for the right position, executives would move their families wherever the job required.That assumption is no...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 5, 2012 | News
When the Supreme Court handed down its landmark ruling on "Obamacare" on June 28, 2012, pundits around the globe rushed into action to analyze, dissect, and otherwise comment on the impact the decision would have on, well, everyone. HEALTHCARE DESIGN was no...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 3, 2012 | News
Project category: New construction (completed February 2012)Chief Administrator: Naomi Prendergast, CEO, (978) 569-1000Firm: Levi + Wong Design Associates, Inc., (978) 371-1945Design team: R. Philip Dowds, AIA, Principal-in-Charge; Willie W. Wong, AIA, ASLA, LEED AP...
by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 3, 2012 | News
Building information modeling, or BIM as we’ve all come to know it, has revolutionized the way hospitals are designed and constructed. But are its capabilities being taken advantage of fully?Michael Whaley, AIA, LEED AP, president/director, TURIS Systems LLC,...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 3, 2012 | News
As designers work to connect the built environment to improved HCAHPS scores, it is important to understand the meaning of the questions on the survey. The first 22 questions on the HCAHPS survey are all experiential. Questions 1 through 7 relate to...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 31, 2012 | News
Kristin D. Zeit has been named Editor-in-Chief of HEALTHCARE DESIGN, a Vendome Healthcare Media publication. Her expertise and leadership experience in business publishing, regional conferences, and brand management complement and build upon the sound editorial...
