by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2011 | Trends
The small, and sometimes large, nuances of hospital design can and do play a significant role in helping to heal patients and increase the satisfaction of healthcare professionals. Design elements can have an enormous impact on patients and families, and now are a...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2011 | News
This issue is the second of our four Spotlight issues for 2011, highlighting women’s hospitals from around the country. In addition to it hitting just in time for Mother’s Day, this issue also focuses on a subject that hits home for me on a personal level...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2011 | News
Two years ago, Nashville-based Gould Turner Group (GTG) was presented with a challenge. Rapides Women's and Children's Hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana, was feeling the pressure of a competing facility undergoing a renovation through an addition to its...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2011 | News
In the late ′80s and early ′90s, there was an increasing call for specialized diagnostic imaging services for women. As this subspecialty evolved to meet the unique needs of women, care providers responded by developing warm, welcoming spaces to serve...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2011 | News
Welcome to our 4th edition of the HEALTHCARE DESIGN Platinum Products and Services Guide!Ever come across a product that was so beautifully designed that you just had to comment on it? Whether in terms of appearance, functionality, or both, it showed the work of an...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2011 | News
What you see is what you get. In hospitals, patients and visitors count on the positive distraction that outside views can provide. However, occasionally the natural healing light and landscapes desired by most everyone are marred by essential, yet unsightly devices....
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2011 | Trends
Although a handful of free-standing women’s hospitals are serving women in select urban centers around the country, much more so, healthcare developers have embraced the concept of the women’s pavilion. “The most common approach to housing consolidated...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 25, 2011 | News
Last century, healthcare delivery in India was primarily led by private practitioners and doctor-owned hospitals. Almost all large institutions were either run by the government or supported by private donations to be run as charitable hospitals. In the past decade, a...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 18, 2011 | News
In this first part of a three-part series on incorporating family into the patient room, authors Hannah Jefferies and Jennifer Merchant of Perkins+Will discuss the core concepts of the model and introduce a project at Rush University Medical Center, where that model...
by Jennifer Silvis | Apr 18, 2011 | News
The Beryl Institute recently released its study The State of Patient Experience in American Hospitals, the purpose of which was to “gather information about what American hospitals are actually doing to improve the patient experience.” It yielded some interesting...
