by HCD Guest Author | Jan 19, 2011 | News
We are all patients at one time or another. We all have the experience of going to a healthcare facility—whether a community clinic, hospital or outpatient center. And while we don’t necessarily have the opportunity to design the facilities we visit, we do have the...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 19, 2011 | News
Tension. There is a paradigm shift that designers and architects are experiencing with the ‘Leaning’ of healthcare and the looming questions as it regards to healthcare reform. With this paradigm shift there is a tension that is emerging between maintaining the...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 14, 2011 | News
The Hastings Center just released a set of articles as part of a report examining how design benefits patient care and business.“Fable Hospital 2.0: The Business Case for Building Better Health Care Facilities" is the lead article in the series appearing in...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 13, 2011 | News
Take a large group of healthcare designers and healthcare professionals and ship them off to Las Vegas for a conference and see what happens. The result was HEALTHCARE DESIGN.10, which was held November 13-16, 2010. While there was an amazing exchange of knowledge...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 11, 2011 | News
In a recentblog post, Jennifer Kovacs, Managing Editor of HEALTHCARE DESIGN magazine, talked about our recent visit to University Hospitals’ new Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, Ohio. The trip really was a privilege as it gave the editorial team a chance to...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 10, 2011 | Trends
Over the past few years, alcohol dispensers along with hand washing sinks have become the standard in most healthcare settings. To a large extent it seems to be a duplication of efforts. We may actually be in a transitional time where no one is comfortable with moving...
by Jennifer Silvis | Jan 6, 2011 | News
I had the pleasure Jan. 5 of taking my first hospital tour since joining HEALTHCARE DESIGN and Healthcare Building Ideas in September. My colleagues and I drove out to the east side of Cleveland to visit University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center. The new build...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 5, 2011 | News
C. diff, or Clostridium difficile, has created a challenge when designing for a hospitality feel in an acute care setting. Typically, carpeting is used to create a softer image, lower general foot traffic noise, and increase the overall level of design. Per the Center...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 4, 2011 | News
We all do it, every year at this time—we begin to think about repenting our holiday overindulgences and aspire to refocus on what we attempted to accomplish last year at this time. It always starts with goals to exercise more, eat healthier, spend less, and be a...
by HCD Guest Author | Jan 4, 2011 | News
As the new year opens and many of us return to work after an all-too-brief holiday break, notices of slight upturns in the construction industry have started to surface: Construction employment either increased or remained steady in a growing number of metropolitan...
