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The 95,000-square-foot project combines healthcare and community services to address social determinants of health and is one of the facility tours at the 2024 HCD Conference + Expo in Indianapolis. 2024 HCD Conference Facility Tour: Franciscan Health Orthopedic Hospital Of Carmel In Indiana. The 235,439-square-foot hospital, MOB, and ...
Planning and Designing Highly Functional Nurses' Stations
Nov 1, 2006 · Key Design Principles. Regardless of which organizational type one chooses, our research team has identified five key principles to consider when designing a nurses’ station or series of stations. 1. Allow for Control and Flexibility. The ability for staff and patients to control their environment is crucial.
Top Design News & Trends in Healthcare - HCD Magazine
Stay Current On The Latest Healthcare Construction News. Delivering can’t-miss industry happenings from healthcare providers, design and architecture firms, and manufacturers and suppliers, Healthcare Design Magazine delivers relevant news and trends daily. News coverage ranges from construction and interiors projects, including hospitals, outpatient facilities, clinics, cancer care centers ...
Healing Hues: Choosing Paint Colors for Healthcare
May 11, 2012 · You want a nice balance of both warm and cool colors. Cool colors tend to be more calming, so things that are in the blues and the blue-greens, those types of colors really put people at ease because they do bring a sense of tranquility. But you don’t want to get so cool that it feels cool. So you want to balance those colors with some warmth ...
The History of Hospitals and Wards - HCD Magazine
Mar 11, 2010 · A brief history of hospitals and wards. Hopefully, this brief history of hospitals helps illustrate the tremendous advances over the past 2,000-plus years from the temples and pauper wards to private rooms. The challenge facing us now, as in the past, is how to continue to improve the quality of the patient environment by providing cost ...
PHOTO TOUR: The New Stamford Hospital - HCD Magazine
Apr 7, 2017 · Acute Care. PHOTO TOUR: The New Stamford Hospital. A secondary ICU waiting area was designed to host large families and communal support of patients when needed. The gradient-etched glass provides a degree of privacy while borrowing natural light from the exterior and featuring comfortable seating with access to internet and patient materials ...
Key Considerations in Patient Room Design, Part 1
Apr 1, 2006 · Once the patient room plan is determined, the hospital must confirm the detailed design features for the headwall, footwall, nursing support area, and family amenities. Headwall. The wall behind and the ceiling over the patient’s head are the most important spaces for incorporating clinical care elements.
Creating a Center for Wellness - HCD Magazine
Aug 31, 2003 · In part, this goal can be achieved by establishing a clinical core. This core is constructed with a minimum 28-foot column spacing and a minimum floor-to-floor height of 14 feet, thus creating a universal grid. The core should house a majority of the building program with only required interior interruptions.
Colossus Of Care: New Parkland Hospital - HCD Magazine
Jul 21, 2015 · At 2.1 million square feet and an anticipated 30,000 people passing through its doors each day, Dallas County’s New Parkland Hospital, opening Aug. 20, is a monumental achievement in more ways than one.. Since its inception in 2008, the $1.33 billion, 862-bed facility remained the nation’s largest healthcare construction project in progress and, now completed, today stands among the ...
Design Rx: Delivering Operationally Efficient Pharmacies
Sep 1, 2015 · Moving away from small satellite locations, hospitals pharmacies are being built in centralized locations to better leverage clinical pharmacists’ expertise as part of the medical team, and to more efficiently fill, package, and deliver medication to patient units. Meanwhile, more complex medical inventories, regulations mandating …