by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2007 | Uncategorized
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2007 | News
Riverside Medical Center in Newport News, Virginia, envisioned a benchmark outpatient facility for cancer treatment. Riverside is committed to accompanying the patients’ and loved ones’ journey through cancer care, and is equally supportive of staff needs...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2007 | News
Project category: New construction (completed January 2004) Chief administrator: Alan Olive, Administrator, (775) 982-5507 Firm: HMC Architects of Nevada, (775) 322-9475 Design team: Architecture, HMC Architects of Nevada; Structural Engineering, Blakely Johnson &...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2007 | News
Project category: Project in progress (June 2012) Chief administrator: Jeanette Despatie, Chief Executive Officer, (613) 938-4240, x1401 Firm: Stantec Architecture Ltd., (416) 596-6666 Design team: George Bitsakakis, Project Principal; Diego Morettin, Project...
by HCD Guest Author | Aug 31, 2007 | News
Project category: New construction (completed August 2006) Chief administrator: Pamela Meyer Davis, President & CEO, (630) 527-3000 Firm: Matthei & Colin Associates, (312) 939-4002 Design team: Pamela Meyer Davis, President & CEO; Marilyn Daley,...
by HCD Guest Author | Jul 29, 2007 | News
Advanced diagnostic imaging equipment presents a huge set of design challenges for healthcare facilities. Issues involve the planning for the technology itself, the rapid obsolescence and replacement of that technology, and safety concerns for both patients and staff....
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
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...
