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Successful healthcare design delivery teams work in highly collaborative environments. The ability to adapt quickly plays an important role in the success of the team from a client’s perspective

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Topics: feedback, Healthcare Design, Quality Control, Continuous Improvement, Integrated Project Design/Delivery (IPD)

As an architect working for Array, with their focus exclusively on healthcare, I am very interested in how the technological advances in medicine are influencing the design of hospitals. I had the.....READ MORE

Topics: Planning, virtual reality, Architecture, Healthcare Design, Interior Design, futurism, Affordable Care Act (ACA), Modular Construction, hospitals, Architects, Continuous Improvement, Healthcare

Just a little over five months ago, we witnessed immense devastation to the New York City area due to Hurricane Sandy

Sandy came just one year after Hurricane Irene and quickly became the largest.....READ MORE

Topics: Planning, Architecture, Disaster, Healthcare Design, Storm, disaster preparedness, Hurricane Sandy, Architects, Continuous Improvement, Healthcare

CANstruction® is a non-profit organization that holds annual design and build competitions to construct giant sized structures made entirely of canned goods in major cities. The structures are then.....READ MORE

Topics: Architecture, giving back, Healthcare Design, philanthropy, Canstruction Philadelphia, Continuous Improvement, charity

By Kristin Zeit, Editor-in-Chief Healthcare Design

As more and more patients prefer retail health such as alternative medicine and healing options for their medical treatments, the trend toward fewer.....READ MORE

Topics: Architecture, Healthcare Design, Interior Design, Affordable Care Act (ACA), hospitals, healthcare reform, Patient Environment, Continuous Improvement, Healing Environment

Nurse Station Design

Anyone in the healthcare or the healthcare design industry recognizes the nurse station as one of the most pivotal and complex working environments within a hospital. It may not.....READ MORE

Topics: Architecture, Healthcare Design, Interior Design, family centered care, Healthcare Millwork, Continuous Improvement, Healthcare, Healing Environment

When a disaster occurs, hospitals must remain operational to support patients and staff so it is critical that they are built to withstand natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods

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Topics: Planning, Architecture, Disaster, building codes, Healthcare Design, Storm, disaster preparedness, Hurricane Sandy, Exterior Design, Architects, Continuous Improvement, Healthcare

Published by Executive Insight, December 2013. Big Data is an information technology term that describes the gathering and analysis of sets of data too large and complex to be managed by traditional.....READ MORE

Topics: Architecture, data analysis, Healthcare Design, Affordable Care Act (ACA), Architects, data, analysis, Continuous Improvement, Healthcare, big data

In recent years, I've seen a dramatic growth in sustainable design and green building practices to reduce the overall impact of the built environment on human health and the natural environment

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Topics: Architecture, Healthcare Design, Interior Design, Architects, Continuous Improvement, Advisory Services

Array hosted its second Annual Lean Event in late 2012. This year the course was at Array’s New York City office located at 44 East 30th Street

The four-day program "Green Belt Lean Certification.....READ MORE

Topics: Planning, Architecture, Lean, Healthcare Design, Interior Design, Green Belt, Facility Design, Architects, Continuous Improvement