by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2008 | News
Not long ago, Editor-in-Chief Richard L. Peck received a note commenting on the “Starchitects” editorial he had written for the May 2008 issue of HEALTHCARE DESIGN. It was from Tim G. Pennigar, lamenting from his perspective as a structural systems project manager for...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 24, 2008 | News
From the most recent crop of articles, lectures and industry chatter, it seems that hospital planners are beginning to look beyond evidence-based design for a new focus. Yet we remain perhaps too narrowly attuned to micro-process changes in healthcare—such as room...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 17, 2008 | News
Two weeks ago, my colleague Simon Bruce touched off a discussion about using Lean principles in planning and design. A current strategy of Lean design is to get as much program as possible out of the expensive I-Occupancy construction and into an adjacent B-Occupancy...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 12, 2008 | News
The Global Health and Safety Initiative (GHSI), along with industry partners, is currently in the process of developing an ecological footprint calculator expected to provide comparable sustainability measurements within and between healthcare systems. The ecological...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 10, 2008 | News
How often have you heard, “We don’t want this hospital to feel sterile and institutional?” How often have you said it yourself as if this were something completely sensible? Maybe it’s time we all took a deep breath and asked ourselves, “In a world where hospital...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 5, 2008 | News
With water playing a necessary role in our day-to-day survival and evolution, it is no wonder that we find the sound and sights of flowing water relaxing—a “psychological massage” as pond hobbyist Dave A. Jones puts it. Co-owner of The Pond Professional in Woodstock,...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 3, 2008 | News
On July 31st, the American Society for Healthcare Engineering of the American Hospital Association (ASHE) released a Guidance Statement to Membership in which they caution “potential misrepresentations of the [evidence based design] concept and the apparently...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 3, 2008 | News
Recently, we ran a news article about theretail clinic boom currently happening in Illinois. In the original article, Wendy Edwards, the area’s lead nurse practitioner noted, “We’re really not in competition with the immediate care clinics. We’re trying to...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 31, 2008 | News
It is one thing to have a traditional multispecialty hospital. It is quite another to have a multispecialty unit. But that is what the LifeBridge Health System’s Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, achieved recently when it assembled the various specialty...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 31, 2008 | News
Managing the many details involved in the logistics of building of multiyear, complex healthcare construction project presents a host of challenges for any construction management team. Preconstruction services, incorporating the use of Building Information Modeling...
