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It is not every day that your client’s project makes the cover of Healthcare Design magazine, so I must toot my horn a little. Haskell’s recently completed St. John Broken Arrow hospital graces the November 2010 cover as an ideal example of how design-build works for healthcare facilities. I have heard every story and excuse […]
November 29, 2010
I may have mentioned before that each conference has an unspoken theme, an informal thread that unconsciously runs through the days events. Although the pallor of healthcare reform hung in the air at HCD.10, two weeks ago I picked up on a lot of Planetree mentions. Sometimes the reference was overt, as in my seminar […]
November 26, 2010
In a recent post I explored how a design team can provide added value for an owner by assisting in financing a project. This has been a key for owners of historic structures who want to adaptively reuse or restore their facilities; they often tap resources to help realize a project that might otherwise cost a premium or […]
November 24, 2010
In Florida, architects have been beat over the head with best practices for ‘designing for mold’, a.k.a. moisture control. I believe the impetus for this focus is to combat a legal environment where mold has evolved into fertile territory for copious lawsuits based on media attention, public sentiment and asthma prevalence. The topic has been […]
November 23, 2010
As healthcare costs continue to rise, healthcare prevention—as in, acting proactively in the present to avoid catastrophic health problems in the future—is getting increased emphasis. Nevertheless, much talk has lead to little action thus far, as prevention requires more than a world view shift on the patient end but also a paradigm shift on the […]
November 22, 2010
Of the myriad examples of ways to make healthcare more efficient and thus more affordable, I keep coming across the idea of clarifying job duties. Strangely, I have read two strategies that appear to be contradictory. The first calls for hospitals to assign tasks appropriately; that is, individuals should do only the work for which […]
November 18, 2010
Check out my comments from Day Three of the Healthcare Design Conference 2010 (HCD.10) posted on Healthcare Design’s blog earlier this week.
November 10, 2010
In a recent article, Johns Hopkins Medicine CEO Dr. Edward Miller was quoted as saying “Culture eats strategy every day for lunch.” He was discussing how to get a program instituted within a very diverse organization. To me this means even the best intentions mean nothing if there is not cultural alignment between two different […]
Owner's Toolbox 
November 30, 2010
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