by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 27, 2011 | News
Many firms in healthcare design spend a great deal of time and money developing their brand image. Marketing communications departments consistently crank out elaborate and sophisticated material that highlights their firm’s great projects and significant...
by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 27, 2011 | News
Providers who continue to sit on the fence about adopting Lean processes in their operations can look to the bottom line for evidence of need. This article highlights such problems as wasteful practices, excess inventory, unused capacity, and other factors that Lean...
by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 27, 2011 | News
Of the healthcare executives who responded to a recent Trane survey, 96% said they believe that a hospital’s physical environment directly affects quality of care.Their opinion is supported by researchers at The Center for Health Design who analyzed hundreds of...
by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 26, 2011 | News
Much has been written about the need to create healthier environments in healthcare facilities. One might reasonably wonder why healthcare environments would be otherwise. However, after a generation of designing facilities to be more and more sterile, more and more...
by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 26, 2011 | News
Robert Shapiro recalls how tightening capital markets almost tripped up a $325 million construction project for North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System, the nation’s second largest nonprofit healthcare organization.“Construction began right when...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 26, 2011 | News
As we look back on the healthcare landscape 18 months after the Affordable Care Act passage, healthcare administrators and facility designers are evaluating potential changes. When I previously discussed the topic in September 2010, Gary Nyberg, AIA, healthcare...
by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 21, 2011 | News
It is estimated that by the end of the decade, close to $60 billion will be spent on healthcare construction, which implies that close to $300 million will be spent on art in healthcare. In the current economic climate, this investment cannot go unchallenged. Does the...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 20, 2011 | News
Our healthcare team is in the midst of a benchmarking exercise at a hospital with which we have an amicable, non-client relationship. It is helpful to rely on this arm's length arrangement to mine the pertinent data targeted in such an essential exercise.Design...
by HCD Guest Author | Sep 20, 2011 | News
“What do you expect and hope to be the contribution of the Millennium generation as they come of age?” This was the question that I asked, during a recent healthcare leadership conference, of Tom Brokaw, author of "Boom!" and "The Greatest...
by Jennifer Silvis | Sep 19, 2011 | Trends
Who said you can’t go home again? HKS, Inc., designed the original Albert B. and Margaret M. Alkek Hospital at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston in the mid-1990s, working with Walter P Moore (as well as associate architects Lockwood Andrews...
