by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2006 | News
One year into its life as a functioning, self-certifying rating system, the Green Guide for Health Care has attracted more than 75 projects to its Pilot program, representing more than 20 million square feet. Green Guide Pilot projects are located in 23 states across...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2006 | News
Project Summary Planning, Programming, Architecture, Interior/Graphic Design: Karlsberger Companies MEP Engineering: ccrd Partners Structural Engineering: Datum Engineers, Inc. Civil Engineering: Bury+Partners, Inc. Landscape Architecture: TBG Partners Sustainability...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2006 | News
The current movement toward all-private inpatient rooms has been largely cheered by patients, caregivers, and designers. But is a 100% private configuration necessarily the best plan for all units? Do semiprivate rooms still have a place in the healthcare...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2006 | News
From November 6 through November 9, 2005, the best and brightest in the healthcare design industry descended upon Scottsdale, Arizona, for HEALTHCARE DESIGN.05, the nation’s leading conference on advancing and transforming the built environment. More than 1,700...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2006 | News
Five years ago, Clarian Health Partners elected to try a design experiment in its soon-to-be-constructed cardiac critical care unit. Spearheaded by nurse executive Ann Hendrich, RN, and taking its lead from The Center for Health Design, it signed on as one of the...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2006 | News
Itook over Schickel Design Company in 2000 with the goal of continuing the tradition of integrating works of art and Architecture to connect an institution through its buildings to its ideals, and to create beautiful, evocative architectural environments that engage...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2006 | News
Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital is an 82-bed physical medicine and rehabilitation hospital located on Chicago’s West Side; in fall 2003, landscape architects Douglas Hill Associates, Inc., completed the facility’s 10,000-square-foot therapeutic rooftop...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2006 | Trends
Back pain is a serious problem among nurses and nurse aides. Studies have shown that nurses who have direct interaction with patients, performing manual lifting and transferring activities, are at particularly high risk of injury and back pain.1 According to Fragala...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2006 | Trends
How to solve vibration challenges in healthcare laboratories? There is a “whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on” in laboratories across America. Not from earthquakes or tsunamis but from a source much more common and insidious: people going about their daily...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2006 | News
Fine art has been important to man since he first began adorning his dwelling. At the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc cave in France, Paleolithic hand stencils and stylized images of wildlife dating from 30,000 BC decorate the walls of the cave. These images describe what...
