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Maximizing Efficiency in Multi-Use Buildings - Part 3
This post continues the examination of research, healthcare, and higher education facilities that so often must accommodate multiple, diverse programs within a common structure. For work on complex...
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Lean Design Criteria in Site Selection
The selection of a new site for healthcare purposes is occurring more and more frequently as organizations adapt to new trends and innovations in healthcare facility design. Yet ironically, there...
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Three buzzwords in cancer center design that are here to stay in 2012:...
It seems in the healthcare design field there is always a buzzword that encapsulates prevailing thought. Through the years we have heard about healing environments, evidence-based design and...
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Lifts Can Help Patients and Staff Alike
A study in 2008 revealed that, nationally, 70 percent of nurses are over the age of 40. This is a growing trend and a reversal cannot be seen on the horizon. I don’t think I need to quote data to...
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Healthcare Design Magazine - The Patient of the Future
The healthcare system exists to serve one person—the patient. There are hundreds of articles and speculation on the hospital of the future, patient-centered care, and the patient room of the future. I...
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Healthcare Design Magazine - Trending the Present and Future
In a perfect world, all new healthcare buildings would operate exactly as designed and would stay that way for the life of the facility. However, in the non-perfect world we live in, most buildings...
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Designing for High-Demand Healthcare Fields
Joliet Junior College’s new Health Professions Center hosted a grand opening on March 12, 2013, that showcased the flexible nature of the building’s learning and simulation environments. The grand...
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Top Blog Posts in April
We are starting a new feature on this blog where we highlight the most popular posts from the previous month. Below you will find a short summary and links to the posts that grabbed reader’s attention...
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The 7 Attributes of Highly Effective Healthcare Planners
With the current pressure healthcare organizations face due to the uncertainty of reform, reimbursement and future regulatory decisions, it is imperative that sound principles are used to make facility...
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Why Healthcare Should Take a Page from the Banking Industry’s Playbook
We have documented in previous posts that a new platform is being built for healthcare. Healthcare planners and designers need to develop a system that manages the population’s health and encourages...
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The Buzz in the Industry... Culture of Care
As I flip through publications, magazines, emails and sometimes marketing material, I realize that we are all repeatedly using one very powerful word: Culture. I have used it myself thinking it was my...
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