Your New Healthcare Building Is Green? Prove It
It wasn’t that long ago that green design—applied and accepted on a widespread scale—was the next big thing.…
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Creating A Sustainable Healthcare Space By Recycling A Big-Box Store
When Kaiser Permanente decided to open a medical office building in Portland, Ore., one site in particular caught…
Trends September 6Akron General Layers Technology In Hybrid OR Suite
The design of any healthcare space is an intricate process with hundreds of variables. But when the space…
Trends August 22Reducing Fall Risks In Healthcare
With healthcare facilities scrambling to improve their financial and performance position under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there’s…
Trends August 19Balancing Safety And Comfort At Psychiatric Hospitals
In 1813, Samuel Tuke wrote the following in a description of York Retreat, an institution for insane people…
Trends August 13Using Design-Build To Streamline Healthcare Renovations
Feeling the impact of healthcare reform and the recession, many hospital owners are faced with the difficult task…
Trends August 8The Growing Challenges Of Designing Around Technology
The infiltration of technology into all aspects of healthcare is irreversible—and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. From…
Trends July 18The Evolution Of U.S. Tribal Healthcare Centers
In the early 1990s, James Childers attended the groundbreaking of the Redbird Smith Health Clinic in Sallisaw, Okla.,…
Trends July 15LEED v4 Is Happening: What Does It Mean For Healthcare?
As announced last week, the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED v4 rating system has been approved—at long…
Trends July 9Bariatric Design Trends In Healthcare
Five years ago, Mercy Health was planning a new 645,000-square-foot community hospital on the west side of Cincinnati…
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