by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2007 | News
Evidence-based design (EBD) is an approach to environmental design (architectural, interior, and landscape) that aspires to base design decisions on documented research and well-established best practices, with the aim of improving outcomes.1,2,3 Evidence-based design...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2007 | Uncategorized
The Nightingale Awards are the industry’s fi rst and most prestigious healthcare-product design competition. Sponsored by Contract magazine in association with The Center for Health Design and Vendome Group, LLC (publishers of HEALTHCARE DESIGN) and judged by a...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2007 | News
In the first part of this article, we discussed the strategic value of the request for proposals (RFPs)—why this “first date” of the project relationship is crucial to long-term planning, efficient operations, and the ongoing mission of delivering quality healthcare....
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2007 | News, Trends
“Run until apprehended”. These were the three words Cheryl Herbert, president of OhioHealth’s new Dublin Methodist Hospital (DMH), instilled in every member of the project team as we began the challenging endeavor of designing a hospital to be better than any...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2007 | Uncategorized
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) recently reported a 14% increase in U.S. emergency room cases between 1997 and 2000. NCHS attributed part of the jump to the growing number of people with the highest rate of emergency room and inpatient hospital use...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 1, 2007 | News
Based on “Planning for Tomorrow’s Medical Enterprise: How Technology and Innovations in Care Delivery Will Redefine the Hospital”, presented by Catherine Maji, Vice-President, and William Woodson, Vice-President, Sg2, at HEALTHCARE DESIGN.06, November 7, 2006,...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 1, 2007 | Trends
It’s never a good thing when subject matter becomes “formulaic”, i.e., made up of tried and true, totally unsurprising ingredients. Take, for example, these clichéd story lines: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back; hero looks heroic, hero...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 1, 2007 | News
Over the past few years, the construction industry has been hit with a flurry of steep price increases in material costs. This is expected to continue, but the healthcare construction market has flourished of late and looks to continue that trend. HEALTHCARE DESIGN...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 1, 2007 | News
Project Summary Client: the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (on behalf of New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Kings County Hospital Center) Architecture: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), LLP (Phases I, II, III); RBSD Architects/Lomonaco...
by HCD Guest Author | Feb 1, 2007 | News
The first of a two-part series on how well-conceived RFPs can stimulate cutting-edge concepts in response by Jens Mammen and Anne Belleau-Mills, AIA The request for proposals (RFP), the document that kicks off most healthcare construction projects, conjures few...
