by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2008 | Trends
Healthcare designers today must take into consideration more factors than ever when designing hospital spaces. Among a number of issues, two topics consistently enter into the discussion during initial meetings with clients planning renovations or new construction at...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2008 | News
In today’s consumer-driven market, patients are shopping for healthcare, just as they have always shopped for commodities. Technology can give hospitals a leading edge, because the right tools and equipment can improve patient satisfaction, increase safety, and...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2008 | News
For most people, entering a hospital is an unwanted if not traumatic experience: the dizzying bustle of doctors and nurses, technical jargon and hi-tech equipment, the confrontation with illness, death, and injury. Many feel a lack of control and a loss of their...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2008 | News
The Green Guide for Health Care (GGHC) is a sustainable buildings program, developed for the healthcare industry and built on the framework established by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification program. With the GGHC program, a building...
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,...
