by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2007 | News
These days many hospitals are buying into the seemingly self-evident concept that their environments should be among the cleanest and safest—in a word, the “green-est”—available to society, but such was not always the case. As recently as seven years ago, when a young...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2007 | News
Because of a miscommunication, an incorrect set of photographs was published in the article “The Nursing Unit of the Future,” Healthcare Design May 2007, p. 34. The correct photographs for that article, describing the nursing unit design by the Callison architectural...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2007 | News
Gina Adams noticed that her daughter’s color had paled slightly as she slept in her intensive care bed surrounded by all sorts of medical devices. She glanced towards the door of the private room and could see the face of her ICU nurse peering over the PC at the...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2007 | News
It’s always fun to view old and not-so-old movies to get a technological fix—that is, an appreciation of the wonderful technologies that we have at our daily beck-and-call today. One need only go back to films circa 1990 to see characters clunk themselves upside...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2007 | News
community (noun): a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage. It’s interesting that this traditional definition assumes a physical location is necessary to...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2007 | News
Colorful tile TOLI’s Linotesta and Viale tiles, seen here at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, Nashville, as designed by Earl Swenson Associates, feature rich colors and ease of maintenance. Both Linotesta and Viale resist staining, cracking, and chipping...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2007 | News
An exhibit of 29 black and white photographs is encouraging an atmosphere of communication and education at The Gathering Place, a community-based cancer support center in Beachwood, Ohio. Opened on June 4, the day after National Cancer Survivors Day, and ending on...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2007 | News
Children’s Hospital Boston at Waltham began life as a satellite campus for Children’s Hospital Boston (for more on the main campus, see page 20), but it soon grew to have its own distinct identity. Designed by Boston-based architectural firm Steffian...
by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2007 | News
Nature-inspired seating pattern Victor Innovatex has launched its new open line seating pattern, Rivière. Rivière is 100% Eco Intelligent® Polyester and is certified Cradle to Cradle Gold by MBDC. The pattern consists of whimsical, free-flowing multicolored dots in a...
by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2007 | News
I don’t know if it’s possible to be “trendy” west of the Adirondacks or east of the Sierra Nevadas, living as I do in tragically non-hip Cleveland. But it’s always fun to indulge in “trend spotting,” wherever one happens to be. And, for an editor, it...
