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Shedding Light on Difficult Jobs
The article below comes from HealthcareDesignMagazine.com. It talks about daylighting, a topic we discuss here a lot. If you like what you see here, access some of the similar posts by clicking the articles found at the end of this article. This post may be seen in it’s original form here. After studies showed the […]
Natural Beauty and Meditation Room Help Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute Receive an Honorable Mention Healthcare Design Award
The 2014 Healthcare Design Showcase jury tapped three projects among the 100 submitted to be recognized with an Honorable Mention award. The photo featured above is of the meditation room that helped Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute in Lancaster, PA receive honorable mention. The information provided in this post came from HealthcareDesignMagazine.com. The original […]
Building Connections in Healthcare Design
Healthcare Design Collaborators will come together at the end of this month for the Annual Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo 2014 in Chicago. The Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo is where industry leaders, from design firms to healthcare owners, come together for 3 days to share best practices, explore new concepts and discover products and […]
Healthcare Design – Fun Wall Wraps are Unexpected and Exciting
Below are some examples of exciting and unexpected wall and elevator wraps that have been featured in children’s hospitals. New technology has made wall wraps surprisingly easy to apply. The new tac can adhere to the wall for 5 years or be taken down without damage.
Healing Views
Hospitals by nature, can be scary and depressing places. But they don’t have to be. There is ample evidence that aesthetics matter to patient’s health and can contribute to a speedy recovery. To test the theory, University Medical Center of Princeton mocked up two different patient rooms. The first has a nice view, a sofa […]
Winners of the 3rd Annual IIDA Healthcare Interior Design Competition
Below are the winners of this years IIDA Healthcare Interior Design Awards. The Information was taken from Dexigner: Design News The original post may seen here: http://www.dexigner.com/news/27635 The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) has announced the winners of its 2014 Healthcare Interior Design Competition. The competition honors and celebrates outstanding originality and excellence in the design and […]
Adult Hospitals Take a Page Out of the Pediatric Playbook
Last year, the Journal of the American Medical Association – JAMA, published an opinion column by a University of Pennsylvania medical student who had been struck by the contrast when he moved from adult departments to a pediatric rotation. Suddenly the environment was cheerful, “almost celestial,” wrote Mark A. Attiah. “Hospitals are scary places – […]