by HCD Guest Author | Dec 1, 2007 | News
When Alegent Health was formed in 1996 by joining two 100-year-old-plus healthcare entities—Bergan Mercy Health System and Immanuel Medical Center (part of Immanuel Health Systems)—many opportunities arose to integrate support services among the six total hospitals in...
by HCD Guest Author | Dec 1, 2007 | News
As the green building movement expands, so does the awareness of buildings’ overall effects on human health and the environment. Although hospitals and their operations have always had a large footprint, only recently have designers, contractors, operators, and...
by HCD Guest Author | Dec 1, 2007 | News
This past September, on one of those perfect days where the sun is shining bright but the air has that crisp coolness to it that lets you know fall is just around the corner, I drove down the coast from San Francisco to Big Sur to attend a retreat-style meeting on...
by HCD Guest Author | Dec 1, 2007 | News
Introduction Healthcare Design is pleased to bring you our 2nd annual Corporate Profiles edition. While we continue throughout the year to bring you the latest in groundbreaking facility design across the world, these profiles highlight the architects, designers, and...
by HCD Guest Author | Dec 1, 2007 | News
When Dublin Methodist Hospital (DMH), a new 333,000-square-foot, 94-bed full-service hospital, opens in Dublin, Ohio, in January 2008, an artistic masterpiece will be unveiled that combines years of research and evidence-based design principles with a design that uses...
by HCD Guest Author | Dec 1, 2007 | Trends
Why five comments? I really don’t know—maybe it’s what easily fits into a column this length. Heaven knows it’s possible to write articles, white papers, books, and super-sized tomes about the subject these days. I would say, conservatively, that...
by HCD Guest Author | Dec 1, 2007 | News
As we did in our December 2006 issue, HEALTHCARE DESIGN has decided to put a bow on the year that was by asking recognized architects, interior designers, and consultants in the field to nominate their peers whom they thought had made a significant difference in...
by HCD Guest Author | Dec 1, 2007 | News
Like a Lexus,” is how engineers have described how the Hoag Hospital Sue & Bill Gross Women’s Pavilion would perform when faced with a major seismic shock. It is the first structure of its type in California to use a moment-frame steel structure sitting atop...
by HCD Guest Author | Nov 10, 2007 | News
Joan Saba, AIA, of NBBJ, and David Hanitchak, Director of Planning and Construction, Massachusetts General Hospital, review how the 3-D design visualization approach known as Building Information Management (BIM) guided their choices in a recent MGH project and...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2007 | News
In many ways, a wireless local area network (WLAN) can be compared to a highway—the network can only accommodate what it was initially designed for. And therein lay the challenges in the design and support of a WLAN: They require not only consideration of current...
