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Active Security at Healthcare Facilities

16 years ago15 years ago012 mins

Healthcare Facility Safety is a Multi-Faceted Issue

Safety and security issues must be considered systemically. There are a myriad of variables that come into play in a healthcare environment. Safety is not relegated to one problem with a corresponding safeguard; it functions as an active system.

Secure Design

An urban hospital, for example, might create an outer ring with bollards and rails that appear decorative but are strong enough to stop a vehicle from crashing into an entrance.

Q&A: Stan Spellman, of Spellman Brady & Co.

16 years ago15 years ago010 mins

Stan Spellman, vice president of St. Louis-based Spellman Brady & Co., has more than 20 years of experience in interior design. His firm specializes in interior design, furniture procurement and artwork master planning at healthcare, senior care and higher education facilities. He spoke with HC&O News during a phone interview from St.

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Fit For A King

16 years ago15 years ago05 mins

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Sanford Children’s Hospital has made it easier for sick kids to imagine their doctors as knights in shinning white armor, instead of lab coats, with a new $60 million, 179,000-square-foot facility designed to resemble a storybook castle.

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Safety & Security

16 years ago15 years ago04 mins

When the doors to the new Oklahoma Department of Mental Health’s Forensic Center in Vinita opened in July 2008, patients and staff were welcomed into a medical facility offering the latest in technology and patient safety.

Four years ago, the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health retained PSA-Dewberry, a national architectural firm, to design the new 200-bed forensic center that houses patients deemed incompetent to stand trial and those judged not guilty by reason of insanity.

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Main Street America

16 years ago15 years ago011 mins

History is often the element that ties people in rural communities together, but if that history also applies to an active healthcare facility, the community could have a problem on its hands.

Until the recent opening of a replacement hospital, Bell Memorial Hospital in Ishpeming, Mich., held the distinction of being the oldest hospital in the state. The 90-year-old facility was crumbling as it continued to serve patients from the former mining communities at the midpoint of Michigan’s isolated upper peninsula.

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