Author: Lindsey Rowles
Labor and Delivery Rooms – Designed for Perfection
Every expectant mother wants the birth of her baby to be a beautiful experience. After all, it will be one of the most important and memorable days of her life. Labor and Delivery rooms have come a long way in creating a peaceful and homelike setting to accommodate laboring mothers, their partners, and the arrival […]
Benefits to Healthcare Design
Successful healthcare facilities are looking to expert interior designers to help make more efficient use of existing resources that encompass every facet of healing. There are many benefits to a well-designed facility. The obvious ones are: 1) Speeding up the healing process. Designs that use plenty of light and art work have been proven to further […]
Designing For Alzheimer’s and Dementia Patients
Cases of dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease are on the rise. In fact, by 2050, if there is not a medical breakthrough to prevent, slow or stop Alzheimer’s disease, it is projected that the number of individuals in the U.S. aged 65 years and older with the disease will triple, from 5 million to 13.8 million. […]
Radio Interview: Mitra Pakdaman
As we have discussed before, there is a lot of research and evidence on the benefits of bright, open environments in healthcare spaces rather than the dark, drab areas of days gone by. Mitra Pakdaman is the CEO of LA Healthcare Design, a Los Angeles-based interior design studio. She was recently interviewed by Dr. Leigh […]
Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama
In October 2015, the new Grandview Medical Center opened in Birmingham, Alabama to replace the old Trinity Medical Center. Finding a location and building the facility was quite the process. It took seven years from inception to completion, but the center consists of a 930,000-square-foot hospital, a million-square-foot parking garage, and a 220,000-square-foot professional office […]
Alder Hey’s Park Place
Alder Hey’s Park Place is a new hospital in Liverpool, England which was built to replace the 100-year-old Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. The new 645,834-square-foot hospital opened in October, 2015 and was built in a 22-acre park within the city. The facility has 270 beds, a large critical care area, 16 operating theaters, and outpatient […]