by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2006 | News
Dialysis patients across the country are receiving fast-track, quality care in newly completed healthcare facilities they could almost call home. These facilities house highly accessible, comfortable patient areas that include not only dialysis equipment, but also...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2006 | News
When Sutter Roseville Medical Center (SRMC) in Rose-ville, California, decided to embark on an ambitious master plan that included a variety of renovation and expansion projects, the organization’s decision makers realized that changing how the projects would be...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2006 | News
There’s a saying among seismologists: “Earthquakes don’t kill people. Buildings kill people.” They make a good point. It’s not the enormous shock waves of energy released during an earthquake that cause most injuries and fatalities. It’s how...
by HCD Guest Author | Jun 30, 2006 | News
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center (PSJMC) in Burbank, California, is no stranger to challenges. Like many California institutions, the hospital was damaged by the severe 1994 Northridge Earthquake. With the assistance of the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2006 | News
Excerpts adapted from the session “Healthy Hospitals: Boston Green Building Initiatives,” presented April 20, 2006, at CleanMed 2006 in Seattle Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) continues to collaborate with a number of leading Greater Boston healthcare capital projects...
by HCD Guest Author | May 31, 2006 | News
Many strong chemicals are used in healthcare settings, for a variety of reasons: to treat patients (medications and anesthetic agents); to clean, disinfect, and sterilize surfaces and supplies (cleansers/disinfectants); and to kill insects and other pests...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2006 | News
Images courtesy of Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc. (HOK) In last month’s article I summarized the basic models for inpatient room design, as determined by the toilet room location: midboard, inboard, and outboard. I also discussed how same-handed rooms, some...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2006 | News
One doesn’t necessarily have to be a fan of NBC’s Today Show to remember the tragic death from colon cancer of coanchor Katie Couric’s husband Jay Monahan in 1998 and Couric’s subsequent nationwide broadcast of her colonoscopy to heighten...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2006 | News
For more than 20 years, the Minneapolis Heart Institute had grown as most hospitals do: by accretion, adding services and units in space as it became available about the hospital. So it wasn’t surprising that, after years of this process, patient services that...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2006 | News
When 13-year-old Nichole Paone recently had to undergo surgery to remove a tumor the size of a baseball at the back of her brain, she was operated on in Children’s Hospital Boston’s new MROR, the world’s first Intraoperative Magnetic Resonance...
