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Creative Opportunities to Engage with Children of All Ages
In this upstate New York hospital, the designers created each floor around a theme/element that captures beloved New York landscapes. The designs and architectural features recreate waterways, meadows, gardens and parks. Each floor has a theme and an icon to represent it. The icon is to help families remember which floor they are on. Interactive […]
How to Appeal to a Wide Range of Ages in an Assisted Living Care Facility
The featured redesign is a Assisted Living Facility called Fleur Heights Care Center – done by ASK Studio. When redesigning the nursing home, the designers wanted to move away from traditional nursing home components to help appeal to a wider age range of residents in need of an extended rehabilitation experience. The design focuses on patient privacy and […]
Home Away From Home
As the healthcare landscape evolves—and technology, budgets, patient demographics, and industry-specific challenges change—the effective use of furniture and design can help facilities keep pace. With the proper planning, the process of creating flexible, aesthetic, cheerful, and productive environments can be both cost-effective and well within reach. – Healthcare Design Magazine Below is a photo that illustrates how […]
Wikoff Gives Local Ronald McDonald House an Inspired Kitchen Makeover
Wikoff Design Studio (WDS) is donating time to help the local Ronald McDonald House redesign their 25 year old kitchens. The Ronald McDonald House provides comfort and care to children and their families by providing a “home-away-from-home” for families so they can stay close by their hospitalized child at little or no cost. Many families travel […]
Outside a Hospital’s Walls
The idea that the built environment can have a positive effect on health outcomes is a generally accepted truth today. But what about the community outside a hospital’s walls? What effect can a healthcare campus have on the health and wellness of its surrounding area? Think “total health environments”… Hospitals and medical centers have historically […]
How Important is a Positive Atmosphere for Kids?
Jessica, age four, enters the hospital for the very first time. She looks around and tries to determine what happens in this space? Will it be an interesting place to spend her days? Will she be supported as she is treated for illness? Can she continue to grow and develop here? Jessica will discover the […]
Designing to Heal – Children’s Retreat
Recent changes taking place in healthcare overall have inspired design projects for organizations all over the country. Due to reform and parity laws, access to care is anticipated to rise, and health insurers are now required to provide comparable benefits for both medical/surgical care and mental healthcare. In response, Brattleboro Retreat, a psychiatric hospital in […]