by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 13, 2011 | News
Incorporating hospitality elements into healthcare design isn’t necessarily a new concept. However, Heartland Health in St. Joseph, Missouri, took that goal very seriously by hiring David Jones right from the hospitality industry, where he worked for several years as...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 13, 2011 | News
At a morning session at the ASHE PDC conference in Tampa, Florida, Jeffery L. Campbell, PhD, and students Brian Sorenson, and Kimberly Mendez–all of Brigham Young University–presented a session titledResearch on the Future of Health Care Construction: An...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 11, 2011 | News
March 6-12 marked a weeklong recognition of the importance of patient safety, spearheaded by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF). The foundation designs the event around the need to highlight improved patient-provider communication as a vital part of keeping...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 11, 2011 | News
It’s Friday, March 11, and the new iPad 2 is here. With every new iToy or gizmo introduced to the market, I find myself, like many of us, wondering about its potential impact on healthcare. Even The Advisory Board reported on Wednesday about the transformative...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 10, 2011 | News
Can design infuse hope in patients? More importantly, is infusing hope important? Shouldn’t treatment itself be sufficient? While treatment constitutes the central focus, treatment efficacy and recovery is very much associated with the notion of hope. Here is my...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 9, 2011 | News
ASHE’s International Summit & Exhibition on Health Facility Planning, Design & Construction — otherwise known around the industry as ASHE PDC — takes place this year March 13-16 in Tampa, Florida. Outside of providing a much-needed break from...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 9, 2011 | News
I’m very excited today to tell our readers the news that we’ve signed on a new blog team here at HEALTHCARE DESIGN. We have 13 contributors from HKS, Inc., who will be sharing with us their insights, observations, and general “two cents” on healthcare design. You can...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 9, 2011 | News
A roundup of the most talked about articles and topics for the month on our LinkedIn group takes us over to TheHEALTHCARE DESIGN Connection. The ” Small Hospital, Big Idea” competition from Kaiser Permanente has garnered some interest among our members....
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 9, 2011 | News
Authors Hank Adams, AIA, and Chuck Armstrong, AIA, from the new Parkland Hospital design team of HDR + Corgan, share the process their team went through to create the facility's master plan in HEALTHCARE DESIGN 's four-part online exclusive series. The design...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 3, 2011 | News
Have the winter doldrums got you down? I certainly know my answer to that question as I type this from our offices here in blustery Cleveland. It turns out that just as we all have experienced a good dose of the “winter blues” in our everyday lives, so do patients...
