by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2009 | News
The AIA Healthcare Awards program showcases the best of healthcare building design and healthcare design-oriented research. Projects exhibit conceptual strengths that solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns, as well as the requisite functional and...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
Most architects and interior designers would agree that the broader the perspective one brings to a project, the smoother the process should be-simply anticipating multiple viewpoints and objectives should help avoid unnecessary interruptions and conflict....
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2009 | Trends
This year has, unfortunately, seen a sea change for the architecture/engineering/construction field, as unemployment grows and postponed and cancelled projects continue to mount in a troubled economy. Adding to the uncertainties for healthcare are the mega-debates...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
Pebble Partners routinely state that the greatest benefits of being a healthcare executive involved in a hospital design and construction project is the wealth and accumulation of information and lessons learned over the course of the life of the project. Recently two...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2009 | News
Our country’s aging population will have increasingly demanding healthcare needs in the coming decades, and healthcare organizations are preparing for the onslaught. Rapidly developing technologies and environmental policies are enabling and helping to define...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2009 | News
“Reflections” is a new column featuring thoughts and commentary by former HEALTHCARE DESIGN Editor-in-Chief Richard L. Peck. One of the fun things for an editor is when articles that he or she has selected for a particular issue fall inadvertently into a theme. That...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2009 | News
One of the goals of any advanced design, architectural or interior, is to give the building and space a “personality,” a visual expression that can only belong to itself and can be mistaken for no other form or type of its kind. Recently, noted healthcare interior...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2009 | News
Introduction HealthCare DESIGN is pleased to offer our 2009 Specialty Directory. With its 434 listings, you get convenient access to useful information about 269 companies offering supplies and services to the healthcare design field. The Directory, under its various...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2009 | News
“Lick, stick, and pour”-common words used to envision the work of pharmacists-white-coated men and women toiling away in the dispensing pharmacy in the hospital basement or behind the counter of a community pharmacy, counting out pills and affixing labels for...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 29, 2009 | News
Everyone hopes that the current H1N1 2009 pandemic (swine flu) will remain mild, but the reality is that hospital providers must be prepared for unmitigated virus outbreak. In September 2009, doctors at Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas, set up two...
