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May 3, 2013 Anne DiNardo, Senior Editor
As obesity rates continue to rise across the country, healthcare organizations must focus on accommodating the needs of all patients.
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July 17, 2012 Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare Building Ideas; Managing Editor, HEALTHCARE DESIGN
A panel of experts fielded codes and standards questions from live and online audience members in an afternoon plenary session at the ASHE Annual Conference in San Antonio.
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July 16, 2012 Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare Building Ideas; Managing Editor, HEALTHCARE DESIGN
During a morning session at the ASHE Annual Conference in San Antonio, facility managers from both military and private health systems discussed how the challenges facing the healthcare industry today have a direct effect on the buildings they operate and maintain.
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July 6, 2012 Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, Editor-in-Chief, Heallthcare Building Ideas; Managing Editor, HEALTHCARE DESIGN
A week after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, one recently completed health center and ambulatory surgery center project serves as an example of how the news reaffirms the healthcare industry is on the right track.
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May 25, 2012 Barbara Horwitz-Bennett, Contributing Editor
ASHRAE Committee Chair William McCoy, PhD, shares insight on how ASHRAE Standard 188P "Prevention of Legionellosis Associated with Building Water Systems" will impact the healthcare industry.
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May 18, 2012 Todd Hutlock, Editor-in-Chief
The first installment of our interview series with HEALTHCARE DESIGN's 2012 Most Influential People in Healthcare Design shines the spotlight on the President of the Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation.
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April 4, 2012 Jennifer Kovacs Silvis
The release of the 2012 International Green Construction Code not only offers a code by which to model a sustainable construction project from start to finish, but it also offers some leeway in terms of what jurisdictional entities may dictate on construction projects taking place in their communities.
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March 30, 2012 Mary Valmonte, EDAC
The 2012 edition of NFPA 101, the Life Safety Code, comes with design, management, and cost implications for how healthcare facilities are built, as well as how they're maintained.
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March 14, 2012 Jeff Razwick
In addition to alarms and automatic sprinklers, fire-stopping materials play a key role in protecting patients and staff until firefighters arrive, something especially critical for hospitals taking a defend-in-place stance.
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March 7, 2012 Todd Hutlock, Editor-in-Chief
In a plenary session at the 2012 ASHE PDC Summit, Doug Erickson, FASHE, CHFM, HFDP, CHC, provided a sneak preview on changes to expect in the forthcoming 2014 Guidelines.
