Featured Artists and Inspirations
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 […]
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 […]
Camp Pendelton Hospital – Designed with the Soldiers in Mind
Our soldiers should have whatever it takes to get them well as quickly as possible… In December, 2013, Camp Pendleton, a U.S. Marine Corps Base near San Diego, opened its new Evidence Based Design Hospital. Over 70,000 active and retired military families are expected to use the facility which is designed to handle everything from […]
Warehouse Transformation
Stanford Children’s Health (a division of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and the Stanford School of Medicine) recently opened a new pediatric clinic in Emeryville, California. They transformed an industrial warehouse from the 1940’s into a clinic where children can get quality care in a more comforting atmosphere. The theme of the facility is “under-the-sea”. […]
A Hospital Designed by Children….
What happen’s when you let your patients – which in this case are children assist in the redesign of a hospital? Something extraordinary! Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, UK did just that and is set to reveal and open in the summer of 2015. The following post is from BDP’s site and may be seen […]
Doorway to Design…
Designers, architects, facility planners, and owners have a lot of details to cover on every project—decisions that impact a patient’s health and experience. At the top of that list is remembering who you’re designing for and knowing that patient’s journey—from the parking lot to an exam or procedure room and back out again. Below is […]