by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2008 | News
While building information modeling (BIM) is a very powerful electronic tool—potentially enabling unprecedented efficiencies and savings in the design, construction, and operation of healthcare facilities—its learning curve is steep. As the design and construction...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2008 | News
Bellevue Medical Center Bellevue, Washington Project SummaryProject Completion Date: July 2008 Owner/Client: Group Health Cooperative Architecture: Ellerbe Becket, 501 2nd 2nd Street., Suite 701, San Francisco, CA 94107 Local architectural partner: NAC Architecture,...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2008 | News
Owner: Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital Architecture: TRO Jung Brannen Associate Architects: AHS International Architectural Design Consulting and Shenzhen General Institute of Architects Design and Research Interior Design: Shenzhen General Institute of...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2008 | News
“I want you to imagine how our future military hospitals look, feel, and act. We will have healing settings that are: quiet, organized and filled with light, where patients get few if any infections, places that minimize the possibilities of falls designed to reduce...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2008 | News
Weill Greenberg Center creates a striking and singular new identity for the Weill Cornell Medical College and for healthcare (figure 1). Replacing an unsightly parking lot, the 330,000-square-foot, 15-story building is the first stage in Weill Cornell Medical...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2008 | Trends
HEALTHCARE DESIGN.08 will be held in Washington, D.C., November 8-11. Ten out of the 49 educational sessions to be presented at the conference will come from the Pebble Project, a research program created by The Center for Health Design to implement evidence-based...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2008 | News
As frequent readers of HEALTHCARE DESIGN can attest, the “look” of hospitals has changed radically over the past 10 years—perhaps no more so than in their exterior appearance. The gray monoliths of yesteryear are no longer with us (or at least not as prevalently)....
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2008 | Trends
Acute care hospitals are continually evolving their approach to adult inpatient care. They are searching for ways to best serve patients and their families while reducing operational costs. This has resulted in the rethinking of the established model of three levels...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2008 | News
On the evening of September 11, 2008, a Presidential Candidate Forum on National Service was hosted at Columbia University in New York City. Senators Barack Obama and John McCain were both asked to address the topic of national service. As each presented his views, I...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2008 | News
When Tom Rockers arrived at St. Anthony’s Medical Center in St. Louis as the facility’s new president and CEO in 2003, he had a mandate from the hospital’s Board of Directors to improve all facets of operations. It didn’t take long to determine...
