by HCD Guest Author | Mar 21, 2010 | News
After this weekend’s historic healthcare reform, opinions have been understandably mixed and numerous. Below are some voices in the healthcare industry giving their view of the bill and the future of healthcare: Dr. Mandy Krauthamer Cohen, Executive Director of...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 21, 2010 | News
CORONADO, CALIFORNIA—Beneath sunny California skies, attendees at Environments for Aging .10 began the conference yesterday with preconference tours to choose from; sessions on private partnership, alternative housing, bathroom accessibility standards, and access to...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 21, 2010 | News
I give Alanna Carter of Horty Elving a lot of credit. She is an architect who really wanted to experience what it was like living in a nursing home. So, she checked herself into one for 24 hours. Carter’s experiences were chronicled in a presentation today at...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 21, 2010 | News
Last week’s HEALTHCARE DESIGN poll question asked: As the construction industry continues to lose jobs, my design firm is: 55.00% – Maintaining our current staff 20.00% – Hiring new staff members 25.00% – Losing...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 21, 2010 | News
Dr. Anjali Joseph, director of research at the Center for Health Design, defines aging well as having three components: A low risk of disease and disease-related disability High mental and physical engagement An active engagement with life Dr. Joseph’s talk was...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 16, 2010 | News
After discovering that his son Luca had a rare form of Leukemia, Greg Vassallo, Senior Associate in the User Experience Design group at Moment—an independent interaction design firm in New York—spent a significant part of his life in and out of hospitals, eventually...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 15, 2010 | News
When interior designers are faced with the challenge of selecting appropriate fabric for healthcare furniture we know that high performance fabric is a must. Yet as designers we look to specify not only the fabric that performs the best in a healthcare setting but...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 14, 2010 | News
Last week’s HEALTHCARE DESIGN poll asked, As a healthcare facility, are you addressing your infrastructure in one of the following manners: 66.67% – Your facility is updating or upsizing your infrastructure systems to prepare for future expansions 33.33%...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 11, 2010 | News
Water infiltration in a hospital is just bad news all around—unsanitary, mold-producing, patient-disrupting, and staff-annoying. However, today I am writing in defense of roofs, almost always blamed for any leak but not always the culprit! In both the design...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 11, 2010 | News
In 2008, two industry leaders presented a state-of-the-art modular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facility concept to the marketplace (featured in the April 2008 issue of Healthcare Design). Today that vision is being realized with the installation of several...
