by HCD Guest Author | Jun 15, 2008 | News
Unfortunately, according to Timothy J. Ward, at the time of writing a partner based in Tefen USA’s Washington, D.C., office, “Because day-to-day operations for emergency departments (ED) are so overwhelming, I’m sad to say that we don’t have enough focus on disaster...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 9, 2008 | News
both natural and man-made, I’d say the hospitals in my area are: Comments: -Available staff will be a big concern, and this is a global issue. -Being head of security at my hospital and a member of the Disaster Planning Committee I feel that there is always room...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 8, 2008 | News
At St. Joseph’s Hospital in the aptly named Eureka, California, workers at a healthcare construction project discovered a time capsule ensconced behind a memorial plaque attached to a hospital exterior wall. Inside they found, perfectly preserved since 1954, copies of...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 3, 2008 | News
With all the green and sustainable building ideas, designs, and products that come into my inbox, this press release from Green Spirit Strategies, a sustainability communications consulting company, stuck out like a sore green thumb. I was sent this press release just...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 3, 2008 | News
A video painting is created by recording footage from a stationary digital camera for an amount of time, anywhere from three minutes to a half an hour or longer, theoretically. The scene can be anything in the real world, as represented in Artscape Gallery’s...
by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2008 | News
Administrators at Mills-Peninsula Health Services in Northern California don’t like their odds. They are building a new hospital less than two miles from the San Andreas Fault, where the U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake rivaling that of the 1906 San...
by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2008 | News
Earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, oh my! Designers of hospitals and other medical facilities often must accommodate one, sometimes two, of these disasters into their designs. But all three? No designer had ever faced that hurdle until NBBJ designed a new $190 million...
by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2008 | News
When internationally renowned artist Leslie Lerner visited The Wellness Community (TWC) in Sarasota, Florida, after his bladder cancer diagnosis, he found many of the resources and support he sought. But while he appreciated the helpful, caring people he met, he also...
by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2008 | News
Wellspring Medical Center in Woodburn, Oregon, embodies a new concept for healthcare delivery that is designed to encourage and empower people to become and stay healthy. Wellspring’s beautiful new 89,000-square-foot facility is the first comprehensive wellness...
by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2008 | News
When textile designer Louise Russell first brought her design concepts to New York-based Carnegie Fabrics in 1997, textiles for the healthcare industry were in a rut. Colors were institutional, patterns were simplistic, and fabrics were simply viewed as decoration for...
