by HCD Guest Author | Oct 17, 2012 | News
Even though modest growth is projected for the healthcare construction market in 2013, developing and offering non-traditional supplemental services is recommended as a viable business strategy for healthcare design firms. From commissioning and energy monitoring...
by Jennifer Silvis | Oct 17, 2012 | News
Apply evidence-based design principles to Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired architecture, and the result is the new 56,000-square-foot patient wing and surgery addition at Community Hospital in McCook, Nebraska.Serving a modest population of 30,000 in eight surrounding...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 17, 2012 | News
Ask yourself the following questions: What would happen to patients and staff if your hospital’s electricity went out for an hour, a day or a week? What would you do if an infectious and deadly disease started affecting the patients and staff in the hospital at...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Oct 16, 2012 | News
In putting together the article covering IIDA’s Healthcare Interior Design Competition this year, it was difficult not to get choked up. The winners' circle comprised a wellness center for seniors, a cancer-patient infusion clinic, and a children’s...
by Jennifer Silvis | Oct 15, 2012 | News
The owners of The Summit would prefer that you not refer to it as a “senior center.”In fact, that was the overarching message that Suzi Muszynski, interior designer for Brinkley Sargent Architects of Dallas, received from day one of the project....
by Jennifer Silvis | Oct 15, 2012 | News
It’s not what you’d expect to find behind a storefront window, but that’s kind of the point. The Brooklyn Infusion Center, an outpost of New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, occupies a shotgun storefront building on the busy...
by Jennifer Silvis | Oct 12, 2012 | News
Living in Cleveland, I can’t help but be proud to associate myself with a city at the forefront of healthcare delivery.We don’t shy away from calling ourselves the “medical capital,” boasting hundreds of healthcare–related businesses,...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Oct 12, 2012 | News
San Francisco Surgical Arts (SFSA), a new oral and maxillofacial surgical facility in downtown San Francisco, offers routine oral surgical services as well as advanced facial reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. In 2012, SFSA became the first facility of its kind to...
by Jennifer Silvis | Oct 12, 2012 | News
Scratch the surface of a rural town and chances are the healthcare, employment, and community linchpin is the local hospital. However, a fundamental challenge causing many rural facilities to shut down is the lack of ready cash flow for new equipment, construction...
by Jennifer Silvis | Oct 12, 2012 | News
The mission behind hospice is both practical and optimistic, and the challenge for any interior designer is to match that mission with a deft touch. For the Bayt Abdullah Children’s Hospice (BACH) in Sulaibikhat, Kuwait, NBBJ was charged with creating just the...
