by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 15, 2011 | News
Each year, HEALTHCARE DESIGN recognizes the Most Influential People in Healthcare Design. We want to know from you, our readers, who are the architects, interior designers, facility managers, and researchers that lead the pack? To submit a nomination, please go...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 15, 2011 | News
Retirement plans are being postponed for many, but the reality remains that many of our baby boomer leaders are well into the back half of their careers and succession planning is as much a factor for firms' future success as how, when, and to what extent the...
by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 11, 2011 | News
In the first two parts of this three-part series (Part 1, Part 2), we explored the constraints and opportunities during the healthcare sector’s transition in the changing regulatory environment. At a global level, we concluded that there are two fundamental...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 11, 2011 | News
Evidence-based design may be a well-known concept in the healthcare design world, but to the mainstream, it is still a bit of a foreign concept. All that may change now that none other than Oprah Winfrey, the queen of all media, has included a short feature on Fable...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 10, 2011 | News
As healthcare reform continues to be a topic full of questions rather than answers, it brings with it a set of parallel changes that are already being implemented in an attempt to be at least one step ahead once the floodgates open. The rise in medical office...
by Jennifer Silvis | Aug 4, 2011 | News
In the first part of this three-part series, we explored the constraints and opportunities during the healthcare sector’s transition to accountable care organizations (ACOs). At a global level, we concluded that there are two fundamental strategies that appear...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 3, 2011 | News
In May 2011, my HKS colleague Jennie Evans posted a blog titled “HKS: IT Changes Everything.” Her comments focused on how poor interfaces with planned technology can stall the implementation of planned operational processes. She closed by asking the...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 28, 2011 | News
Recently, I was reading an account of a successful endeavor to fight malnutrition in the young children of a small African village. It was an interesting comparison of a few children that received the same nutrients as a majority of the children in the same village,...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jul 27, 2011 | News
If you are immersed in the evidence-based design process, then you know that a connection to nature is at the core of how the design of the built environment impacts the reduction of stress/pain and replenishes the soul.Landscape architecture is a profession that has...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jul 27, 2011 | Trends
This story starts with a veteran who liked to garden. The East Orange Campus of the Department of Veterans Affairs New Jersey Health Care System (VA NJHCS) practices a patient-centered approach to health and healing. When a 71-year-old veteran was undergoing...
