The first quarter issue of the Patient-Centered Design Online Newsletter is up and features an article on Lean design for healthcare. I’ve often wondered what Lean Design is. It is a derivative of manufacturing experience, specifically that of the Toyota Production System (TPS). According to Tammy S. Thompson: “Lean design is a system that focuses on … Continue reading »
A few weeks ago, I watched the two-hour Complimentary Web Information Session on the New Standard for Design and Construction of Canadian Hospitals & Health Care Facilities (CSA Z8000-11). It was a 2 hour presentation and question period introducing the standard from a panel of authors. This webinar no longer exists, but instead, you can … Continue reading »
The winners for the Small Hospital, Big Idea Competition are Aditazz and Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch/ Perkins+Will (M+NLB). According to the Kaiser Permanente (KP) website, the winners were chosen for designs that: Create spaces to inspire human-to-human connection and collaboration Include civic spaces that blur the boundaries between the community and the traditional hospital setting Bring nature … Continue reading »
Winners announced! Friday March 23rd. Check out their designs here! Tell me what you think of them!
The Therapeutic Landscapes Network has linked to a Call for Papers: The Architecture of the Psychiatric Milieu for the peer review journal Facilities. From the post: Facilities for psychiatric care have a tradition of standardization in design and treatment dating back to the moral treatment paradigm of the 1850s. As normative approaches to psychiatric care … Continue reading »
Canadian Architect announced today that HDR Inc., as part of Plenary Healthcare Partnerships (PHP) team began ground breaking in December for North America’s first fully digital hospital, the Humber River Regional Hospital (HRRH), where will automate all of the operational processes. As the first fully digital hospital in North America, the hospital is designed to … Continue reading »
Update: Here is the presentation I received via email after the lecture, courtesy of Ted Kesik, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design – University of Toronto. It’s a PDF, so it loses some of the text between the transitions, but that’s better than no presentation at all. Click on the link below to see the … Continue reading »
Update: As I wait for the winner to be announced, I’ve been perusing the shortlist proposals for the competition. I’ve found some of the modular proposals interesting, like a bit of a return to the hospitals of the 1970s, like the McMaster University Medical Centre. Most of them focused on the ability of technology to … Continue reading »
The University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design has a lecture series every year and I attended Wednesday night’s lecture on the Hospital of the Future, by Dr. Ernesto Morales, a researcher from L’Insitut Universitaire de Geriatrie de Montreal (IUGM). Dr. Morales was recently invited to participate in a project with the Research Centre … Continue reading »
Facilities Net has a project profile on the Providence Newberg Medical Center, revisiting it as the first LEED Gold Hospital in the US. The study is in 6 Parts: Part 1: Revisiting The Performance Of First LEED Gold Hospital Part 2: Hospital Design Team Focuses On Computer-Generated Models Part 3: Hospital Operates On 100 Percent Renewables, Sells Power … Continue reading »
