by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2008 | News
Increasingly, healthcare leaders and decision makers are focusing on creating a culture of patient safety as a key goal of operational initiatives to improve patient care and outcomes. Sound design can help create an environment that supports these initiatives—helping...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2008 | News
It was one of those “Ah-hah!” moments. A moment typically reserved for an early morning shower after you’ve been up all night pondering an issue you can’t resolve. A group of people was standing in the bathroom inside a full-scale, plywood mock-up of a...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2008 | News
How would you describe architects/contractors’ working relationship? “As with CAD a generation ago, it will take time before the industry as a whole is up to speed. Until then, there will be both benefits and significant costs for “pioneers.” It will take more than a...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2008 | News
Courtesy of Brawer & Hauptman, Architects Since the mid-1980s, Maria de los Santos Health Center has been the largest provider of primary healthcare services to Philadelphia’s Latino community. Part of Delaware Valley Community Health, Inc. (DVCH), Maria de...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2008 | News
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2008 | News
An important part of the evidence-based design process includes creating a baseline of knowledge about an institution that should include the wishes and desires of their consumer base. The easiest way to do so is to arrange for visioning sessions with various...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2008 | News
As the largest geothermal hospital project under construction in the world today, Sherman Hospital offers a powerful example of the economic and environmental value of innovative design. When Sherman Hospital, in Elgin, Illinois, opens the doors of its replacement...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2008 | News
Just when it was warming up to the color green, the healthcare building field turns to look up the steep hill to The 2030 Challenge and it realizes that “green” may not be good enough. Something in the shade of clear may be in order—that is, healthcare...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2008 | Trends
Imagine having cut the ribbon marking the opening of a new, state-of-the-art hospital in 1957. In your wildest dreams, could you have anticipated the social, clinical, technological, or economic change that would drive the operations of that same hospital today?...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2008 | News
Recycled glass-chip flooring Stonhard’s all new Stonblend GSI-G provides an abrasion- and impact-resistant surface while incorporating recycled glass chips into the floor for an environmentally responsible system and highly stylized look for patient rooms,...
