University of Iowa Children’s Hospital Updates Design
IOWA CITY, Iowa — The new University of Iowa (UI) Children’s Hospital will welcome visitors with a brightly colored, playful environment to benefit young patients and their families.
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Collaboration Solves Complex Challenges at Rehabilitation Hospital
DENVER, Colo. — RTA Architects likes to say that architects with small egos offer their clients big benefits.
Comforts of Home: Furnishing a Health Care Setting
NEW YORK — In every space people use, furniture is needed and creates an impression. For a space to be functional as well as healing, furniture needs to function in more ways than might be expected in a hotel or office.
UMB Breaks Ground on School of Medicine Building
BALTIMORE — The University of Maryland, Baltimore recently broke ground on a $305 million, 10-story biomedical research facility. At nearly 430,000 square feet, the Health Sciences Facility (HSF) III will be the largest building in the history of the university.
Health Care Design Trends: Lean & Strategic Simulation
Within the health care design industry, many trends pop up, and it’s important to differentiate ones that are simply fads versus those that can have a long-term, positive impact on the forward movement of health care design in the present and future.
Mercy Orthopedic Hospital Debuts Ahead of Schedule
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The $115 million Mercy Orthopedic Hospital opened in late August to offer a wide range of orthopedic and spine services to the local community of Springfield, Mo.
Castle Rock Adventist Hospital Debuts
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Construction on the new Castle Rock Adventist Hospital, which began in the summer of 2011, reached completion earlier this month. HuntonBrady Architects, a health care architectural firm based in Orlando, Fla., designed the 219,000-square-foot hospital.
Evaluating Decentralized Inpatient Unit Designs and Patient Care
Inpatient units traditionally have been designed around a central hub consisting of a large communal nurses’ station, medication room, supply room and other support rooms.
Retrocommissioning Helps Hospital Maximize Efficiency
TIFFIN, Ohio — Facility managers know that operating a newly constructed building in the real world often tests systems in unexpected ways. Charles Ervin, director of facility and support operations for Mercy Tiffin Hospital, located in Tiffin, Ohio, lived this experience first-hand.
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