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Patient Experience Surveys Guide Change, Like Access to Care
Patient Experience Surveys guide change in healthcare design. They have become so important that it is now one of the first steps administrators and designers take when beginning a renovation or a new project. Asking patients the question “How can we make this better?” drives change in processes and design in healthcare. The steps taken […]
Meet Healthcare Design’s Breaking Through Finalist – SmithGroup, Who Used Existing Infrastructure to Solve A Problem In Healthcare
Meet Healthcare Design’s Breaking Through finalist, SmithGroup, who used existing infrastructure to solve a problem in healthcare. Breaking Through 2020 is a conceptual design competition focused on imagination and innovation. As part of the 2020 HCD Virtual event, Healthcare Design hosted the second installment of its Breaking Through conceptual design competition, which encourages innovation by asking participants to solve […]
Samuel Oschin Cancer Center at Cedars-Sinai Uses Neighborhood Concept to Build a Community for Patients
In the recent relocation and redesign of Samuel Oschin Cancer Center located in Cedars-Sinai, the building and design team used a Neighborhood concept to build a community for patients. The result is a modern space that groups like-cancer services together. This means patients can occupy the same waiting rooms and clinical exam rooms without traveling […]
Light-Filled Family Area Provides Respite at Doylestown Hospital
Doylestown Health is a leader in heart and vascular care. They are the only Community Hospital in PA to be recognized as one of the nation’s 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals by IBM Watson Health. (source) Many patients have benefitted from life-saving care offered by Doylestown Health’s Heart and Vascular Center. Their patient experience is further […]
Happy Holidays from WDS!
Holiday greetings from Wikoff Design Studio!! The year 2020 has been one for the books, there is no doubt. I am looking forward to this holiday season more than in prior years. Even though it looks and feels different, one thing is constant. Goodwill and resiliency abound! I’ve experienced firsthand the community outpouring for many […]
Community Members Chip In To Help with the Renovations at Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northern Nevada
We’ve all been there… moving new furniture in only to realize its not going to go through the front door. Last week David Knickerbacher, President at Anchor Door & Hardware, United Rentals and Capital Glass came to the rescue. Using their Boom Lift to help lift new headboards through the second-story window of the Ronald […]
Breaking Through 2020 Finalist HDR Presents Bubbles of Hope
One of the four finalists in Healthcare Design’s 2020 Breaking Through competition is Bubbles of Hope, submitted by HDR. Check out the video presentation given live during the HCD Virtual event. Breaking Through 2020 Finalist: Bubbles of Hope The post information below was originally seen here, by Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, editor-in-chief | December 1, 2020 Images […]