by Jennifer Silvis | Jul 16, 2012 | News
Healthcare facility managers have their hands full, balancing the direct effects that forces such as healthcare reform, mergers and acquisitions, physician alignment, reimbursement changes, and IT infrastructure updates have on the buildings they operate.And while the...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jul 12, 2012 | News
In its second edition of the Infrastructure 100, Infrastructure 100: World Cities Edition, audit, tax, and advisory firm KPMG recognizes what its panel of infrastructure specialists and professionals determined to be “the most innovative and inspiring...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jul 12, 2012 | Trends
Throughout this three-part series, we’ll explore the topic of flexibility in architecture. The first article examined the main reason for flexibility: change. In this second article, we present three types of flexibility (adaptability, transformability, and...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 11, 2012 | News
Earlier today, the United States House of Representatives voted 244-185 to repeal in full President Obama's healthcare law, in the wake of the recent decision by the Supreme Court. In case you missed it, on June 28, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jul 11, 2012 | News
Minutes past a January midnight in 2007, my wife and I found ourselves in an ambulance heading for a prominent Dallas area hospital, projecting possible outcomes with hope and dread for the emergency delivery of our then 30-week-old son. Upon arrival at the...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 11, 2012 | News
Oftentimes, I hear healthcare professionals confused over the differences between transition planning and move management.Transition planning services are frequently associated with move management, and although both are typically applied during the construction phase...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jul 10, 2012 | Trends
As reported in the CHD Research Report in the June 2012 issue of HEALTHCARE DESIGN, the design features of the new wing at Trillium Health Centre-Mississauga site, which include decentralized nurses’ stations, larger patient rooms, and wireless technology, were...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 9, 2012 | News
On a recent flight from St Louis to Orlando, I sat behind two recent college grads grumbling about the economy and their apparent lack of job prospects. The data is ugly—more than 50% of college grads are unable to find work and 85% are...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jul 6, 2012 | News
A week after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, I can’t help but wonder how much the decision will impact the projects healthcare facilities across the country are planning, or recently completed.When I spoke with Andrew Quirk, senior vice...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 3, 2012 | News
Unless you've been living under a rock — or don't own a computer — chances are that you're aware of the Social Media revolution. Social Media is absolutely changing the way we communicate, and savvy businesspeople around the world have taken...
