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
How do you translate a 120-year-old hospital and its proud community tradition into terms that are meaningful in the 21st century? That was a question that the Rockford Memorial Development Foundation and its executive director Helen Brooks faced, having received a...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2006 | News
The new Lacks Cancer Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is the result of a shared vision of Saint Mary’s Health Care and a generous donor community. Guiding the project’s path as a steward of health were three main goals: Convey a unique image identity and...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2006 | News
As enterprise-wide digital information and image management systems replace paper and film, many traditional medical departments are evolving into multidisciplinary and interdependent services. The traditional “ologies”—radiology, cardiology, oncology, anesthesiology...
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...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2006 | News
Imagine checking into a four-star hotel. You arrive at your room for which you are paying $1,000 a night. You walk in. You discover you have a roommate. No one mentioned this when you were checking in. Odd. The next thing you notice is that your roommate is ill, right...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2006 | News
Thanks to the advancing age of the baby boomers, the need for healthcare facilities is continually growing. New hospitals are being constructed, and existing hospitals are being renovated and transformed into bigger and better facilities to accommodate the increased...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2006 | News
The problems became obvious when the forms came off the 70-year-old public structure undergoing renovation. It was a beautiful, high-profile, art-deco-style structure made of cast-in-place concrete. But there were rock pockets, sand streaks, and form offsets marring...
by HCD Guest Author | Apr 30, 2006 | News
Addressing the requirements of healthcare regulatory agencies is increasingly becoming a driving factor in healthcare interior design. In the past, key factors in interior design success encompassed meeting the expectations of the owner, the local community, the...
