The core of the main public circulation loop is finished with glass cladding that serves as a unifying design detail, allows natural light to flow deep into the facility, and assists in wayfinding. Variations on the degree of opacity and transparency of the glass provide necessary levels of privacy required by the myriad of programs housed within. Laid out in an easy-to-follow race track style,

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Fifty-eight percent of U.S. healthcare executives surveyed say their facilities do not have the ability to track patient flow continuously, and more than half (53%) rated the efficiency of their facilities’ bed-turn process as poor or fair, according to StatCom’s 2007 National Survey on Patient Throughput and Capacity Challenges. StatCom, a creator of patient flow logistics and tracking

Project category: Project in progress (February 2008)Chief administrator: Richard W. Newman, President, (336) 886-2444Firm: SFCS, Inc., (540) 344-6664Design team: Tye Campbell, PE, Project Principal; Vernon Feather, AIA, Project Designer; Scott Rasner, AIA, Project Manager (SFCS Inc.); Linda Bump, Culture Change Consultant (Action Pact, Inc.); Steve Shields, Culture Change ConsultantTotal building

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The recent election saw the passing of Proposition 3 in California, a law that authorizes $980,000,000 in bonds to be repaid from states General Fund to fund the construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, furnishing, and equipping of childrens hospitals.Frank Tiedemann, president and chief executive of Children’s Hospital Oakland, said the proposition’s passage is key to the hospital’s

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