by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 15, 2012 | News
“We are called to be the architects of our future, not its victims.” —Buckminster Fuller This quote starts off a new book by...
by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 13, 2012 | News
When Rockingham Memorial Hospital (RMH) officials committed to building their new facility in Harrisonburg, Virginia, as a “green” facility, they were largely forging new territory.At the time, no more than a handful of hospitals around the country had...
by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 10, 2012 | News
In my previous blog, “Is There No ‘I’ in BIM?”, I shared some tips from Michael Whaley, AIA, LEED AP, president/director, TURIS Systems LLC, regarding how building information modeling can be put to use by facility managers.Whaley—joined...
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...
