Barbara Wagner, senior vice president at Clark Construction Group-California (Irvine, Calif.). shares her top 5 thoughts on healthcare design. 1. Collaboration and integration A highly collaborative approach to building—one that’s inclusive of not only design, construction, and hospital facilities personnel, but also physicians, staff, and patients—yields a superior healthcare facility that promotes...
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Some interesting thoughts in an article in Healthcare Design Magazine. Throughout the years in business, our priority has been to work in partnership with our healthcare clients to fully understand their privacy and observation requirements rather than simply pushing own sales agenda. This collaborative approach is why we are one of...
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Congratulations to HGA Architects and Engineers for winning a Merit Award for ThedaCare Regional Cancer Center in the AIA Wisconsin 2017 Design Awards program. We have worked on many projects with HGA and are delighted to see them recognized. Read the full article below: The award jurors praised the...
Read moreAn article in Medical Construction & Design (detailed below) highlights a recent report by Soliant Health as they announce their Most Beautiful Hospital in the U.S. for 2016. They report: For its eighth year, Soliant opened up an 11-month-long nomination period to hospitals across America to see which hospitals...
Read moreAt Vistamatic we continually discuss and debate wellness in healthcare, particularly in terms of preventative and lifelong health strategies for medical facilities. An article in Healthcare Design Magazine entitled: “What Does It Really Mean To Design For Wellness?” discussed the subject and said: “You can’t talk about the healthcare industry...
Read more@HCDMagazine just published a very interesting article where they quote Linda Dickey, senior director of quality, safety, and infection prevention at the University of California Irvine Medical Center who says: “Twenty years ago it was a “forgone conclusion” that some patients would contract a healthcare-associated infection (HAI).” Today, however, thanks...
Read moreOriginal article posted on HealthcareDesignMagazine.com by Debra Levin The Center for Health Design’s mission is to develop and provide built environment solutions for healthcare providers as well as architects and designers, supporting the healthcare system we have today as well as re-envisioning what our future healthcare system and the...
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Architects, Engineers and even Interior Designers are focal points for the operational and functional aspect of any space they construct. More importantly when lives are at stake, planning where and how to put life saving equipment can mean life or death. By utilizing these three elements in planning for a...
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From the December 2014 Edition of Healthcare Design Magazine A Note from the Editor, Kristin D. Zeit If there’s an overriding theme to the design work we’ve encountered in the U.S. this year [2014], it’s this: “Get your own house in order.” What that comes down to is an...
Read moreGlassMagazine.com announces VISTAMATIC’s newly designed website. Vistamatic, a designer and manufacturer of privacy glass and security vision panels for observation control, announced the launch of its new website at www.vistamatic.com. The site offers extensive information on every Vistamatic Vision Panel, as well as product applications as they apply to healthcare,...
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