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HCD.11 Session Review: Enhanced Patient Experience--Design Driver for Urban Hospital-Based Ambulatory Care

November 14, 2011     Shandi Matambanadzo, Associate Editor
James Harrell, FAIA, FACHA, LEED AP, design leader, Healthcare Group, GBBN Architects, Inc., and Timothy Gramann, MBA, CEO, Group Health Associates Affiliated with TriHealth gave a presentation at HCD.11 on some of the key points in designing an urban patient-focused facility.
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Roundtable Discussion Preview: Healthy Village-Lessons Learned from an Integrated Care Delivery Model

November 13, 2011     Shandi Matambanadzo, Associate Editor
Michael Scherbel, AIA, NCARB, EDAC, and Greg Britton, FACHE, will be moderators for a roundtable discussion at HEALTHCARE DESIGN.11 at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, November 14, in Canal B at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center. In this brief preview Scherbel and Britton give some insight into some of the post-occupancy feedback and lessons learned at NorthPointe Health and Wellness Center.
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HKS: Stairway to Efficiency

April 17, 2011    
What is the relationship between the stairway and efficiency? Inverse? As technological advances produced elevators, we quickly relegated the stairs
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Introducing the New and Improved ADA 2010

February 1, 2011     Barbara Horwitz-Bennett
Perkins+Will/Ken Hayden. This reception desk at the Arlington Free Clinic, Arlington, Virginia, illustrates the different access heights
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The melding of aesthetics and durability with code-compliant materials

October 31, 2010     Cheryl A. Sanders, ASID, CID
As an interior designer working on large projects for senior housing facilities for the past 20 years, I have been in a constant battle with
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Accessible Healthcare It's More than Facility Access

July 31, 2010     June Isaacson Kailes, MSW and Daryle Gardner-Bonneau, PhD
Photography by Agi Studio Photography by Agi Studio When facility planners and designers think about healthcare accessibility, they often think
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A collaborative process ties safety and efficiency to create Sacred Heart Medical Center's new design

June 30, 2008     JILL HOGGARD GREEN
It was one of those “Ah-hah!” moments. A moment typically reserved for an early morning shower after you've been up all night pondering an issue you