Featured Projects
Wikoff Design Optimizes Patient Comfort with a Home-Away-From Home Aesthetic
The “home away from home” aesthetic is what works best to support the patients comfort and therapeutic advances in health care. To help achieve this goal, sophisticated color palettes, textures and natural light cater to an elegant yet inviting family setting in this postpartum room design. The sky light over the table casts a natural […]
Product Feature: Phifer’s SheerWeave Interior Sun Control Fabrics
Daylighting is the practice of placing windows and reflective surfaces so that natural daylight provides effective internal lighting and views of the outdoors into a space. Humans are affected both psychologically and physiologically by the different spectrums provided by daylight. One of the important psychological aspects from daylighting is meeting a need for contact with […]
Designing in the Dining Room
There aren’t many of us who enjoy being in the hospital, whether it is for ourselves or visiting family members. In years past, the cafeteria at the hospital has always left something to be desired. This is rapidly changing. Designers are starting to focus on the cafeterias as well as other parts of the hospital […]
Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital
Healthcare Design Magazine recently ran an article on the Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital, which opened in October, 2014. It is one of the first facilities in the State of California to earn the LEED Gold certification. It is built on 25-acres and has a family birthing center, a medical/surgical unit, an observation unit, six […]
Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
In October, 2014, the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine on the University of Connecticut Health Center campus opened its doors. This facility was built in order to research personalized treatments for cancer, diabetes, immunology, neurodegenerative disorders, and microbiology based on information derived from an individual’s genome. Healthcare Design Magazine has a photo tour and an […]
The New UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay in San Francisco
It may have taken 10 years, but the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay recently opened up its new facility in San Francisco and it was worth waiting for. It features 289-beds, 6-stories, 878,000-square-feet and is home to 3 specialty hospitals: Benioff Children’s Hospital, the Betty Irene Moore Women’s Hospital and the Bakar Cancer […]
Providence Medical Park in Spokane, Washington Offers Complete Medical Care
In Spokane, Washington Providence Medical Group has figured out a new way to take care of patients. Their new facility, which opened in April of 2014, offers primary care, diagnostic testing, pharmaceutical services and specialty services all at one location and under the same roof. “Comprehensive outpatient centers are the way of the future, focusing […]