by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2009 | News, Trends
At a time when economic worries and budget limitations for facility expansions may start to squeeze the healthcare industry, Lean processes could very well be the industry’s answer-and lifeline-for designing and constructing new projects in the future. Hospitals...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2009 | News
Bringing order to mega-growth In 1998, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital made a bold business move: it merged with the Columbia University Medical Schools, New York Hospital, and the Weill Cornell Medical School to form New York’s largest healthcare system. Today...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2009 | News
Linda DeHart knows that her latest project A Thousand Windows: A Long Walk in Beauty and its subsequent Colors in Motion DVD descendent have been a long time coming-70 years in fact. The 70-year-old daughter of an architect was recently asked to do a retrospective of...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 29, 2009 | News
Coining a new phrase is rarely an intentional endeavor, but I am going to take a run at it. Green Stain: When practices which are assumed to be sustainable, are forced upon the public through regulation or populism, without proper scientific support of their...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 29, 2009 | News
I received an email from the AIA today urging me to contact my congressman and urge them to hurry up and pass healthcare reform. In the email it said that the AIA has not endorsed any particular legislation, but “…that America’s architects believe...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 29, 2009 | News
Take a video tour of the Cleveland Clinic’s new heart center with NBBJ architects Edwin Beltran, senior associate, and Lisa Baker, ASID, IIDA. The nearly 1-million-square-foot Miller Family Pavilion serves as the main entrance to Cleveland Clinic and the new...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 26, 2009 | News
In an attempt to make hospital environments more comfortable, welcoming and ‘home-like’, the direction in patient room interior design over the past half decade has been to make the spaces more like a hotel room. When do these attempts for a hospitality...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 23, 2009 | News
We’ve just opened up the nominations process for the 2009 Most Influential People in Healthcare Design. We’re looking for you to tell us who are the most influential architects, designers, owners, or others impacting the design and construction of healthcare...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 21, 2009 | News
If your facility is outdated or in need of cosmetic or structural repairs, you have two options: replace it by relocating or rebuilding, or remodel it. It’s not always an easy decision, so be sure to evaluate your situation and consider all of your options. Leased...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 19, 2009 | News
Several years ago, an HGA colleague and I decided that to provide the most effective design strategies for healthcare clients we needed to better understand the needs of their clients—the patients. To do this, we needed to quantify and translate the patients’...
