by Jennifer Silvis | Feb 6, 2012 | News
In early 2011, Vendome Group, LLC, publishers of HEALTHCARE DESIGN magazine; The Center for Health Design; and Nurture by Steelcase challenged students with the theme of “waiting” for the first annual Nurture Collegiate Healthcare Design Competition. Teams...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 3, 2012 | News
As reported here, Switzerland moving forward with plans to build a mock-1950s village — dubbed "Dementiaville" by its detractors — catering exclusively for elderly sufferers of Alzheimer's and other debilitating mental illnesses,...
by Jennifer Silvis | Feb 2, 2012 | News
You may have noticed a new face on the home page of Healthcare Building Ideas this week. Hamilton Espinosa wrote his first post for the magazine as part of a blog team coming on board from DPR Construction.Espinosa is DPR’s national healthcare leader, and he...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 1, 2012 | News
I was at a healthcare conference recently, chatting with a client, when we happened to overhear another general contractor bragging about how his company just returned over $3 million to an owner upon completion of a major hospital replacement project. My client...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 31, 2012 | Trends
Yes, a soiled utility room can be exciting—that is, if you oversee a facility’s materials and waste program. Ask any healthcare sustainability lead about their challenges, and space will certainly be on the list. With the increased complexity of healthcare waste and...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 30, 2012 | Trends
In the upcoming February 2012 issue of HEALTHCARE DESIGN, the CHD Research Report written by Xiaobo Quan, PhD, EDAC, Angali Joseph, PhD, EDAC, and Matthew Jelen, EDAC, discusses the case studies and results of a Pebble Research project focusing on green...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 26, 2012 | News
In case you didn't hear this recently reported story on NPR, a new study has now linked a 2010 outbreak of Legionnaire's disease to a water feature at a hospital in Wisconsin. If you're not familiar, Legionnaires' disease is a severe and...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 26, 2012 | News
The Humber River Regional Hospital (HRRH) redevelopment project, an undertaking of nearly $1.75 billion scheduled to be completed in 2015, brings together a group of firms and organizations dedicated to designing and building a hospital that will improve patient and...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 26, 2012 | News
The month of January is always rife with lists that reflect upon the previous year—from the “best of” to “most-read” to “top” of just about anything.In this particular case, we’re looking at how the country did in 2011...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 25, 2012 | News
Since the release of the 1999 Institute of Medicine report (Kohn, Corrigan, & Donaldson, 1999), “To Err is Human,” patient safety improvements have remained elusive, in spite of a host of interventions (Watcher, 2010). Recent studies have demonstrated...
