The new Hexham General Hospital in Northumberland, Northern England, is a general acute healthcare facility with 98 beds; it also accommodates four operating rooms, an ambulatory care center, four radiology rooms, outpatient services, a pharmacy, a pathology department, therapy services, an education center, and a complete range of hospital support services. The project also includes a primary care

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Issue Date:September 2005,Posted On:9/1/2005 Yuma Regional Medical Center YUMA, AZ NTDSTICHLER Architecture SAN DIEGO, CA This $68 million, six-story tower project includes a heart center, intensive care unit, a medical/surgical bed unit, and a new main entrance. The ground level of the new tower houses the new Heart Center program with its own separate entrance that is immediately accessible from

Issue Date:September 2005,Posted On:9/1/2005 Yuma Regional Medical Center YUMA, AZ NTDSTICHLER Architecture SAN DIEGO, CA This $68 million, six-story tower project includes a heart center, intensive care unit, a medical/surgical bed unit, and a new main entrance. The ground level of the new tower houses the new Heart Center program with its own separate entrance that is immediately accessible from

The following articles are in the works for theOctober 2008 issue of HEALTHCARE DESIGN magazine. Watch this space for updates! Our third annual International Edition, this year featuring our first International Showcase, applying the template of our long-running September Architectural Showcase to projects from around the globe Features on groundbreaking healthcare facilities in Egypt, China, Africa,

Project category: New construction (completed November 2003)Chief administrator: Tony Vines, Chief Executive Officer, (705) 324-6111Firm: Parkin Architects, Ltd., (416) 467-8000Design team: John Christie, Project Director, Architect; May Chow, Project Manager; Sohail Ahktar, Job Captain; Anna Merotto, Intern, Interior Designer (Parkin Architects, Ltd.); Tony Vines, CEO (Ross Memorial Hospital)Photography:http://www.interiorimages.caTotal

Moderator: Carlos Marcet, HKS ArchitectsPanelists: Mark Schaefer, Dr. P. Phillips Hospital/Orlando Health;Cynthia Ware, Florida Hospital;Bob Danner, TLC Engineering for Architecture;Grant Ramsay, The Robins Morton GroupAsk any doctor What matters most in a hospital? and you’ll get the same answer: The patients.So when a 1999 Institute of Medicinereport revealed that preventable medical errors

. A key factor in Agfa HealthCare’s selection of CollabNet TeamForge was the platform’s flexible support for every development methodology. Agfa HealthCare develops software using Agile, waterfall, Scrum, and other methodologies, with an appropriate methodology selected on a project-by-project basis. CollabNet TeamForge’s ability to support multiple methodologies within the same

In a recent survey of nurses, 67% said that their workload has increased over the past six months. Fifty-nine percent reported burnout. Nursing is hard work, physically and emotionally. Days are long40% of nurses today work shifts of more than 12 hours. The stress of caring for higher acuity patients, using increasingly complex technologies, also contributes to staff fatigue and burnout. Caregiver

The Melinda French Gates Ambulatory Care Building at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle may look more like an aquarium than a hospital. With life-size orcas floating above, a 20-foot octopus creeping across the wall, and portholes to photographs of local aquatic life, a kid just might forget where he or she’s at.The underwater theme, based on the marine life of