by HCD Guest Author | Mar 17, 2011 | News
Photo Credit: © HDR + CorganAuthors 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...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 16, 2011 | News
Evidence has taught us the importance of the arts in healthcare and the healing process, but what can be said about the proper selection of artwork? We know that artwork can have a positive impact on the patient experience and distractions, but can it have a negative...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 14, 2011 | News
It’s unlikely that many firms will find themselves with a project in remote San Juan County, Washington, but the takeaways from one that did are plenty for anyone taking on a rural healthcare facility. In the session “Embracing the Rural Hospital Challenge: Peace...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 14, 2011 | News
James C. Benneyan, PhD, didn’t mince words during his Tuesday morning general session, “Looking Back and Ahead at the Quality and Patient Safety Movement: What Does it Mean for Patient Care and Hospital Facilities?” at the ASHE PDC Summit in Tampa, Florida. Benneyan...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 14, 2011 | News
If you’ve been to any large healthcare design conference, no doubt you’ve encoutered the phenomeon of the mid-afternoon Monday session on codes and standards: a dizzying array of numbers and rules and more numbers and more rules that your brain, post-lunch...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 13, 2011 | News
No two healthcare facilities are exactly the same, and it appears to me more and more that the only way a single facility can truly be successful is to know its patients and their needs to the very core. Two such examples of this process were featured this morning at...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 13, 2011 | News
There may not be an immediately obvious parallel between healthcare design and construction and space exploration. But once the topic of teamwork is broached, how the two fit together quickly becomes a lot more clear. Teamwork is what allows our industry to construct...
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...
