Contract furnishings provider, Hightower received multiple awards at NeoCon 2021, including IIDA's 'Best Small Showroom' (under 4,000 sf) and 'Best of Competition' for its newly designed Chicago showroom.
Humanscale welcomes Elizabeth Margles to its Marketing Division in the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Margles comes to Humanscale with twenty years of experience in design, fashion and retail and a background in public relations and advertising.
The exclusive relationship with Kontrol's BioCloud® Technology will provide real-time detection of airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 to help make workplaces safer as organizations return to the office.
The Mile High City is renowned for its ease of access to seasonal outdoor activities, from rock climbing to skiing to fishing. “People move to Denver for the outdoors and all that the city has to offer,” says Managing Principal Kindell Williams. For an office of health conscious, outdoor-loving design professionals, imbuing their new office with healthful design features was a priority for Williams.
Understanding how designers create theme parks could help us reimagine our most important social institutions.
Web-based care support and storing medical data in the cloud has reinforced the user-centric approach to healthcare design.
Millennials, or Americans born between 1982 and 2000, have replaced baby boomers as the largest population segment in the country at 83 million, according to a June 2015 report from the U.S. Census Bureau. That puts them at center stage when it comes to how the healthcare sector markets its services.
Further refinement of WELL standard expected as pilot studies and feedback roll in. Of the 87 per cent of total healthcare costs attributed to tobacco, food, physical activity and stress, 67 per cent are related to individuals under the age of 65. Such statistics from the U.S.-based Cleveland Clinic directly point to how the workforce is being impacted by these illnesses.
Healthcare facilities are becoming more dynamic than ever, and vital to both the short- and long-term healing process of patients. As the healthcare environment continues to evolve, furniture manufacturers are recognizing the need to create practical solutions that meet the needs of multiple individuals. Healthcare furnishings must now meet the functional needs of facilities and caregivers, as well as the therapeutic, comfort and aesthetic needs of patients and families. Furniture has become a critical part of creating an atmosphere where caregiver distractions are reduced, the focus on patient care is increased, the comfort of families is considered and the overall experience is positive.
Leading designers, architects, and product manufacturers enjoyed an invigorating two days at the 11th Annual Contract Design Forum, held in Savannah, Georgia, in early November. The Forum is held each year for experts engaged in commercial architecture and interior design—architects and designers who are principals and design directors of firms—nationally recognized designers of workplace, hospitality, healthcare, retail, education, and civic projects. Design educators and national real estate leaders attended this year as well.
Memorial Sloan Kettering’s new $300 million cancer center focuses on the well-being of the patient—even as they move you through the process as quickly as possible.
U.S. healthcare construction continues to move steadily along at the reliable pace of $38 billion to $42 billion a year. Harder to quantify is the value of healthcare design—particularly its influence on patient satisfaction.
At a recent meeting of the Built Environment Network, member Don Orndoff, senior vice president of Kaiser Permanente National Facilities Services, talked about the softening of the boundary between when we’re receiving healthcare and when we’re just living our lives. The visual of that concept, the blurring of that line, resonated with me.
In a short video in Harvard Medicine’s Winter 2015 issue, Dr. Mitchell Rabkin points out that the traditional doctor/patient interaction occurs on two different planes—the vertical doctor and the horizontal patient. This illustrates how the doctor is bound to fail seeing the room from the patients’ perspective. This reality is more important than you may think.
The Institute for Patient-Centered Design Inc. focused its fourth annual design competition on patient room design for mental health facilities, with the winner announced at the recent Healthcare Design Expo & Conference. “We decided to tackle this subject in order to raise awareness of the needs of behavioral health patients, inspire more thoughtful design and investigation into users’ needs, and to develop a collection of work from the professional as precedent/case studies for progressive behavioral health design,” says Tammy Thompson, architect, medical planner, and director of the Institute for Patient-Centered Design Inc.
What’s service design and how can it improve the patient experience? That’s what Allison Matthews, a senior service designer at the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation was on hand to explain to attendees of the Healthcare Design Expo & Conferenceon Monday.
Among the challenges facing hospitals today is care for chronic patients—addressing how to keep them healthy and out of the hospital and serving them once they do arrive. To look for ways to address the issue, a group of healthcare, technology, and design professionals from HDR Inc. and Texas Women’s University partnered to develop a new care model. The goal was to deliver value-based care to chronic care patients and offer a new framework to support a care-delivery model. The concept—called the population based patient unit (PBPU)—was the topic of discussion during a session at the 2015 Healthcare Design Expo & Conference.
Contract magazine and Healthcare Design magazine, in partnership with the Center for Health Design, announced the winners of The Nightingale Awards on November 16 at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
A hospital’s goal to achieve net-zero energy isn’t impossible, but it’s an effort that requires a combination of active and passive systems and community partnerships.
Allseating’s growth in the healthcare market will continue into 2016 with the addition of a smaller-scale line of seating and tables featuring a classic, streamlined design. The new line—which is currently in prototype—will complement the company’s current Foster Collection, the family of patient, guest and lounge solutions introduced two years ago.
Carolina, a leading manufacturer of furniture for healthcare environments, is set to debut new lounge, seating and patient room product collections at the Healthcare Design Conference. Held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Washington, DC, November 14-17, the Healthcare Design Conference is sponsored by Healthcare Design Magazine and is the premier design exposition and conference for healthcare interiors in North America.
With the Affordable Care Act in place and an economy on the rise, retail and healthcare are an inseparable pair. Healthcare organizations are ramping up to improve patient experience and population health—not only by embracing preventive care and cost-conscious measures, but also by creating retail-like healthcare environments. Today’s providers are migrating deeper than ever into communities, luring consumers with convenient care in a smaller, less-expensive outpatient footprint.
Designing spaces to meet the needs of baby boomers is especially challenging because there’s no clear definition of this specific patient population nor of its unique needs and desires regarding the healthcare built environment.
