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...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2007 | News
As I hope our readers know, this is the month (specifically November 2-6 in Dallas) of the annual HEALTHCARE DESIGN Conference. In nearly 38 years as a healthcare editor, I have attended more conferences than I care to remember. Certainly there are stretches of hours...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2007 | News
Valley View Hospital, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. In partnership with HEALTHCARE DESIGN and The Center for Health Design, Starizon seeks to recognize those healthcare organizations that offer the best examples of melding healing design into their buildings while...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2007 | News
Roughly half a billion square feet of “green” buildings have been completed or are under design and construction around the United States. While that number is growing, green building still represents too small a percentage of all construction projects. Fortunately...
by HCD Guest Author | Oct 31, 2007 | News
When Lily’s situation became critical, her parents were moved to an improvised seating area in the nurses’ station at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Baptist Health’s Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. As doctors...
