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Flip Rooms Maximize Physician Time and Enhance Hospital Revenue

The practice whereby a physician operates on patients in 2 overlapping rooms is called a flip room. The physician must be...

Advancements Key to HVAC Solutions for Today’s Healthcare Needs

The source of many complaints and a great risk for sanitation and safety, temperature and humidity (T&H) control in...

Regional Growth Spurs 澳门足彩app’s Move to Larger Charlotte Office

Responding to business and population expansion in the Carolinas, 澳门足彩app has relocated its growing Charlotte, North...

Orlando Health Neuroscience Institute is Inventive Use of Design-Build

In a project that has been novel on numerous counts, Orlando Health and 澳门足彩app partnered to bring the state-of-the-art...

WELL Building Standards Help Unlock Nature’s Healing Power

People are innately driven to interact with nature, and biophilic design is an approach that accommodates this desire...

Healthcare’s Drive to Net Zero: Evolving for a Green, Resilient Future

The effects of climate change on healthcare and the effects of healthcare on climate change are inextricably linked. At...

AMFP Charlotte Quickly Grows to Be Nation’s Third-Largest Chapter

In the year and a half since Jennifer O’Donnell spearheaded its formation and became its first president, the Charlotte,...

ACHA Task Force Issues Sweeping Recommendations for VA Care

After a yearlong effort, the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA) has released its VA Task Force 2023 Report,...

9 Things I Would Tell My Younger Self: A ‘Groundbreaking’ List

Denise Muth was a single mother starting her climb up the construction ranks before anyone had seen a laptop or a cell phone...

Moore Promotes the Best of Healthcare Design as ACHA President

Ted Moore’s journey to becoming the 2023 President of the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA) began in 2010...

Strong Relationship, Clear Vision Enhanced Key Hospital Expansion

Relationships are the foundation of good business, and building them takes time and patience. In the design world, that...

The Checklist: Make Sure Simulation is the Right Tool for the Job

It is always interesting to describe what you do as a consultant because your job changes from project to project. I would...

Former Dance Hall Goes to Good Causes, Makes Way for New ER

People use that Contact Us link up at the top of the 澳门足彩app.com website for all sorts of reasons, but as far as anyone knows,...

Healthcare Preconstruction Manager is Perfect Career-Building Position

澳门足彩app’s expanding Healthcare Division is designated as one of its core growth markets, and its opening for a Healthcare...

Emory Univ. Hospital Heart & Vascular Center Makes Seconds Count

When treating heart conditions, time is often measured in a matter of minutes, or even seconds. The 澳门足彩app Healthcare...

USP 797, USP 800: A Deep Dive into Hospital Pharmacy Upgrades

Since the release of our first report on upgrading to meet USP 797 and USP 800 requirements, we have received so many requests...

USP 797, USP 800: An Upgrade Checklist for Hospital Pharmacies

Pharmacy requirements are evolving, and requirements for the physical spaces that pharmacies occupy have tightened...

What the iPhone Game “Diner Dash” Taught Me about Optimizing Emergency Department Throughput

Like most people, within hours of purchasing my first iPhone, I discovered game apps. Since that time I have spent entirely...

Larger Midtown Miami Office Deepens 澳门足彩app’s Commitment to the South Florida Region

澳门足彩app is increasing its investment in Miami with the opening of a new, larger office to support rapid growth. South Florida’s...

澳门足彩app Adapts to Meet Healthcare Industry’s Unique Facility Needs

Taking a holistic approach to projects is a hallmark of 澳门足彩app’s work. Nowhere is this more true than in its healthcare...

Empathic Design Makes Borowy Children’s Critical Care Tower Special

Early in the planning stages of the Borowy Family Children’s Critical Care Tower Frank Brooks walked through an area in...

Uncommon Collaboration Drives Healthcare Campus Transformation

With the healthcare needs of the surrounding community growing and changing, administrators of Mease Countryside Hospital...

Modular Construction Expedites Emergency Care to New Communities

Free-Standing Emergency Departments (FSEDs) are, by definition, a community’s link to healthcare when residents need...

澳门足彩app’s Jennifer O’Donnell Named First President of AMFP Charlotte

The Association of Medical Facility Professionals (AMFP) has formed a chapter in Charlotte, North Carolina, its ninth...

Consider ‘Day in the Life’ Issues Long Before Healthcare Opening

It’s common to hear the phrase “Day in the Life” (DITL) during the activation of a new healthcare space, but what does that...

Some Healthcare Interactions Can Benefit from Scripted Dialogue

Scripting, or a standardized response, is part of everyday life. Order a cheeseburger, and the cashier asks if you want...

Healthcare Construction Challenges and Adaptations Highlight Summit

As the world marks two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare operations and construction industries continue...

澳门足彩app’s Healthcare Planning Position Offers Collaborative Opportunity

Medical planners often stay tucked away at their desks, blocking floorplan concepts, creating schematic plans and supporting...

Extensive Hospital Project Culminates in Newly Opened Patient Tower

Through a truly collaborative effort that ultimately would span five years and six major phases, 澳门足彩app Healthcare recently...

The Human Experience is Vital in Shaping Good Healthcare Design

High-quality design has a profound ability to affect our experience and perception of space. In addition to helping providers...

Design Can Improve Quality of Care in Outpatient Women’s Imaging

Given that one out of every eight women born today will be diagnosed with breast cancer, scheduling a diagnostic scan or...

Consulting Leader Takes ‘Whole Patient’ Approach to Facility Solutions

Newly named Vice President and Consulting Services Division Leader at 澳门足彩app, Kevin Meek might seem far from his roots...

Specifying Healthcare Grade Fabrics in the COVID Era

I am often approached by healthcare facilities regarding soiling or staining on their furniture, cracked upholstery,...

Future-Proofing Your Healthcare Facilities

We as humans are configured a certain way. We all have the same systems – like circulatory, digestive, nervous – that work...

Managing Aging Facilities

Aging infrastructure in healthcare facilities represents significant cost and risk, and it has tremendous bearing on...

Case Study: Design Features Help Reduce Potential for HAIs in ICU

Post-discharge infections are one of the leading causes of hospital readmissions. Medicare payments typically make...

Professional Engineers Are Committed to Public Health and Safety

As recently as 100 years ago, lawyers, notaries, and others were performing the work of engineers despite their lack of...

澳门足彩app Keeps Expanding and Improving Use of DMC Delivery

Design Manufacture Construct (DMC) project delivery is growing in popularity, and as an early adopter, 澳门足彩app continues...

Hotspotting Informs the Allocation of Healthcare Resources, Services

Population health has changed ambulatory investment. While in the past healthcare systems looked for opportunities...

Mitigating Moisture in Concrete Floor Slabs

Concrete slabs contain and continually absorb and emit moisture over time, potentially causing costly problems with...

Healthcare Design Director Connects with Client, Creates Their Vision

澳门足彩app’s Healthcare Design Director, for which the company is now recruiting, is a position that embodies two of the concepts...

Taking Command of Capacity Management

Centralized care is emerging to reform patient care operations by generating real-time, actionable analytics and proactive...

Achieving High-Level Design with Virtual Reality Assistance

Virtual reality has come a long way from its original uses in video games and military training exercises. Now this technology...

Post-Pandemic Workplaces Look Different – How Rapid Response Asset Planning Can Help Your Organization Stay Healthy and Smart

One of the unintended consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and extended lockdowns has been unused or ill-used office...

Top 4 Considerations for Ambulatory Asset Planning

Health systems are seeing changing demands on their existing ambulatory asset portfolio, in both services offered and...

Creating Brand Identity in the Digital Rendering Age

As designers, we often rely on visualization strategies such as 3D modeling, renderings, and video fly-throughs to convey...

Differences between Aluminum Metal Plate and MCM Panels and the Code Requirements for Both

Many buildings today are clad with aluminum skins, crisp metal panels in both simple and complex shapes, with limitless...

The Clinic of the Future

Telehealth visits, plexiglass partitions, taped-off waiting room chairs, hand sanitizer stations, and masks are just...

Impact of Retail Health and “Non-Traditional” Competitors on Ambulatory Environment

The health sector has experienced tremendous disruption in the past year, but one healthcare trend had been gaining steam...

Superintendent Mike Drawe’s Long 澳门足彩app Career Reflects the Company’s Breadth of Services, Markets and Success

Michael Drawe’s resume tells the story of 澳门足彩app’s success in commercial and industrial construction. A 澳门足彩app veteran...

Unintended Consequences

COVID-19 has forced the healthcare world into uncharted territory. Protecting patients from those who are contagious...

Top Healthcare Design Trends for 2021

To say that 2020 was difficult for hospitals and health systems would be an understatement. COVID-19 wreaked havoc on healthcare,...

Healthcare Supply Chain: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Yesterday we had a plan on how to improve our supply chain process. We looked at supplier consolidation, our distribution...

How One Client Upped Their Technology for Staff and Patient Safety in the ICU

Intensive care units were born out of the development of new technologies to treat the most critical patients. The first...

Singleton Meets High Expectations With His Hands-On and Client-Focused Style

Charles “CJ” Singleton joined 澳门足彩app in 2017 because he wanted “bigger and better things” for himself and his family....

The Tipping Point: COVID-19 Positions to End the Decades-long Battle for Telehealth Reimbursement

You don’t necessarily have to be in the healthcare industry to see that COVID-19 has changed the way we approach the delivery...

Rapid Response Asset Planning

The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed health systems, and the costs associated with treating these patients have cut...

Are Hospital Outpatient Surgery Centers Destined to Be the “Radio Star”?

MTV’s 1981 debut of the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” instantly changed how we enjoyed music. We no longer had to...

Fighting for Veterans’ Healthcare

“Who are the young men we are asking to go into action against such solid odds? You’ve met them, you know. They are the best...

Unsung Heroes of Healthcare Facilities

The public health crisis of the past nine months has shone a spotlight on the tireless care that doctors, nurses, and other...

Taking Care of Our Mental Health

2020 has been a challenging year for all of us. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our daily lives considerably: healthcare...

Technology That Overcomes Physical Barriers

With such a profound shift in how to conduct business in a pandemic, determining how to conduct tasks in a sustainable way...

Predicting the Future of Healthcare Needs

We’ve heard the expression “Hindsight is 20/20,” but that doesn’t mean we have to move forward blindly. Artificial intelligence...

Integrating Behavioral Healthcare into Our Daily Lives

What if we could be proactive about behavioral health rather than reactive? We cannot control people or their behaviors,...

Moving to a New Building? Invest in Change Management

Change management, the controlled implementation of required changes within a system, is a phrase that is overused. But...

Clash Prevention in Practice

In my previous blog, I discussed the clash prevention process and how 澳门足彩app is using that to advance our designs and deliverables....

Technology’s Impact on Perioperative Spaces

The one thing that the current pandemic is teaching us is that technology is going to play a larger part in how healthcare...

Creativity That’s Not Hampered by Technology

We as designers are hands-on, collaborative, and interactive types. We enjoy the opportunity to get together in one room...

Compete or Capitulate – the Argument for Clinic Consolidation

It’s 2020, and everything seems to be experiencing a revolution. Articles use popularized clichés like “the new normal�...

An AEC Approach to BIM Strategy

Since 1892, 澳门足彩app has embraced the evolution of documentation methods ranging from 2D pen/pencil and paper and 2D electronic...

Bridging the Gap between the Proposed and the Real

You walk down a corridor on your way to an operating room. On your left is a scrub sink. You pause and take a quick peek through...

Engineering Design Post-COVID-19

The last few months have brought forth many discussions surrounding the effects of COVID-19, both current and long-lasting....

Preparing to Respond to The Challenges of COVID-19 – The Second Wave – Part 2

Read Part 1 to learn more about how to coordinate your response to a pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities...

Preparing to Respond to the Challenges of COVID-19 – The Second Wave – Part 1

The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated the need for the healthcare industry to rethink not only our emergency preparedness...

The New Challenge of Healthier Built Environments

Architects and designers are immersed in a challenge to create healthier built environments that address the coronavirus...

Mitigating Patient Anxiety Upon Reentering Healthcare Spaces

As cities and states continue to reopen, the thought on everyone’s mind is, “How do we re-enter public spaces and businesses...

澳门足彩app’s Client-Focused Growth Catches ENR Editor’s Attention

Engineering News-Record’s awards and lists are the gold standard in the construction industry, and as Editor-in-Chief...

What a Caveman Wants

The health of humankind is a complex and fragile thing – a fact highlighted by our current world pandemic. So much of who we...

Planning Capex in Today’s Competing Priorities

We live in a world of competing priorities. Your spouse wants you home for dinner, your boss wants you in the office putting...

Inpatient Mental Health Design Strategies Post-COVID-19

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” — Benjamin Franklin COVID-19 will create an expanded need for...

Keeping Your Healthcare Information Safe

Do you use a smartwatch? Have you ever installed a healthcare, diet, or workout app? Or have you ever put in personal information...

How Consolidated Service Centers Can Ensure Resources during Healthcare Disasters – Part 2

Read Part 1 to learn how a CSC can protect your supply chain during a public health threat or natural disaster. The current...

The Coronavirus and…Design?

Let’s imagine for an uncomfortable minute that viral outbreaks become the “new normal.” Yes, a vaccine will probably be...

How Consolidated Service Centers Can Ensure Resources during Healthcare Disasters – Part 1

The healthcare supply chain is complex, and the role it plays in supporting patient care is critical. Around the world,...

Silver Linings Are Everywhere… Some Require a Little Creativity to Identify

Design is a collaborative process. Everyone on the team has a talent and expertise to offer the collective. From our internal...

Reevaluating Critical Care Needs after the Pandemic

Back in August I wrote a piece about the future of ICUs and discussed the unlikely potential of the hospital of the future...

What to Consider When Reopening a Department

While emergency departments and critical care units have been inundated with patients due to the COVID-19 outbreak, many...

Implementing an Airborne Infection Isolation and Negative Pressure Patient Room Strategy

As we define our new normal based on our COVID-19 experience, each of our perspectives will begin to shape healthcare design...

Worrying about Integrating Patients Back into Your Surgical Services?

You stepped up when the crisis demanded. You were there for your community and your patients. Now it’s time to look toward...

It’s Past Time to Move to Telehealth

If you had not started making shifts toward comprehensive telehealth before the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, you have...

Top 10 Design Trends We Expect Post-COVID-19

As we continue to help clients with their ability to prepare for or deal with patient care surges due to the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Top 10 Strategic & Operational Trends We Expect Post-COVID-19

The surge of patients caused by COVID-19 will undoubtedly affect how healthcare is delivered once the current situation...

Increasing the Capacity of Airborne Infection Isolation Capable Rooms

The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted a lot of focus and evaluation to the design of the contemporary hospital patient room....

Providing a Better Environment for Healthcare Workers

There is nothing like a sudden and drastic change to make you have major epiphanies, and the social distancing measures...

Virtual Visits to Keep Projects on Track

As part of my job as a construction administrator, I conduct periodic site visits to our projects under construction. The...

Managing Access and Flow for Immunocompromised Patients’ Safety

It’s been just over five years since my father died due to complications from acute myeloid leukemia. When he was most vulnerable,...

Supporting Patients to Integrate Technology into Their Daily Health

Wearable health technologies are not a new concept. From simple step counters to watches and apps that monitor our activity...

Planning in a Time of Constrained Capacity

Health systems, particularly complex areas such as the emergency and surgical services departments, have long used computer...

The Simple Questions We Ask Big Data

Every day we hear about big data, the need to harness it, and the need to analyze it. In doing so, we are promised that big data...

Watch Your Step! The Importance of Flooring Selections in Healthcare Spaces

As a healthcare interior designer, I am often asked why design is needed in healthcare. Once I overcome my initial shock...

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