by Jennifer Silvis | Feb 27, 2012 | News
Since the early 1980s, Legacy Community Health Services has been a piece of the Houston landscape, where it was started in an effort to offer locals a place to go for anonymous STD screenings and treatment. Today, it serves more than 40,000 patients a year, providing...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 24, 2012 | News
As mentioned in blogs by my colleagues Associate Editor Shandi Matambanadzo and Healthcare Building Ideas Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, last week we were given a tour of two Cleveland Clinic facilities designed by Westlake Reed Leskosky–Twinsburg...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 24, 2012 | News
A quick update from the HEALTHCARE DESIGN (HCD) and Healthcare Building Ideas (HBI) editorial team about our websites! Well when I originally started writing this blog a few days ago everything was great in the world of technology and our websites were robust with new...
by Jennifer Silvis | Feb 24, 2012 | News
Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute is the cornerstone of “The New Saint Luke’s,” a reinvention of the more than 125-year-old Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, Missouri, that updates the campus for the new century.Saint...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 23, 2012 | News
The integrated project delivery (IPD) approach toward hospital design and construction has gotten a lot of attention lately,as project teams have become much more attuned to the fact that working collaboratively typically produces much better results than working in...
by Jennifer Silvis | Feb 22, 2012 | News
February 19-25 marks the annual celebration of Engineers Week, the signature program of the National Engineers Week Foundation. It celebrates the positive contributions engineers make to our society (and I have a feeling we all know a few who have done so within our...
by Jennifer Silvis | Feb 21, 2012 | Trends
Mark Repenshek, PhD, is the healthcare ethicist for Columbia St. Mary’s in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He also chairs the facility’s green team and represents Columbia St. Mary’s on Ascension Health’s green team. He felt a career in healthcare and ethics was the perfect...
by Jennifer Silvis | Feb 17, 2012 | News
Agree with it or not, Cleveland Clinic is doing something pretty interesting with the design of its recent facilities.Looking more like an art museum than a traditional healthcare setting, yesterday I saw firsthand how white walls, floors, ceilings, and, yes, even...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 16, 2012 | News
A visit to two local healthcare facilities in the Cleveland Clinic Health System provided a rare treat for HEALTHCARE DESIGN’s Editor-in-Chief Todd Hutlock and I, along with the Editor-in-Chief on Healthcare Building Ideas Jennifer Kovacs Silvis. As...
