Aspiring to be of one the country’s most autism-friendly hospitals, the new Medical University of South Carolina Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital and Pearl Tourville Women’s Pavilion aims to set a new precedent for inclusive healthcare design. Read More …
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Room to Grow: Designing pediatric spaces for children of all ages
The path through childhood is made up of many phases, and the space around us should reflect that growth. In early years, we are drawn to bright colors and charming cartoons. Remember your first bedroom filled with teddy bears, dinosaurs or rainbows — a wonderland for imagination? A few years later and the teddy bears are replaced by toy cars or unicorns. Another few years pass to find posters of a favorite band or sports star adorning our bedroom walls as we navigate the world of teenagerhood — those awkward years. With high school comes cliques, gossip, sports and just trying to find our “place.” Read More …
Infusing Heart and Soul: Creating healthcare spaces to meet women’s needs
When focusing on certain demographics, it is interesting to see how perspective changes. The result is a different approach to space and building design. Designing for women requires applying different lenses and to think about a woman’s typical day to better understand how to best support her. Read More …
Tale of an American Community Hospital: Navigating regulatory ambiguity
What is a hospital?
As today’s healthcare model moves further away from the major metropolitan acute care hospital, the definition of what a hospital is has become a greater conversation among healthcare providers, designers and politicians, alike. Read More …
Behavioral Health: Balancing Comfort & Safety
With an increased focus on the physical environment needs of recovery-based treatment, today’s behavioral health designs are more seamlessly blending safety, security and durability features with the requirement for calming, pleasant and therapeutic designs. Read More …
MKM Launches Video Series, Health is Membership
MKM architecture + design is launching a new video conversation series, Health is Membership, looking to better understand the connection between placemaking and well-being. Read More …
4 Techniques for Designing & Constructing Medical Spaces for Multiple Users
As healthcare systems strive to grow in their existing markets by creating ambulatory care homes, many are seizing a unique opportunity to co-locate outpatient specialties. The resulting facility is a multispecialty outpatient center, which features a comprehensive range of health services to increase convenience for Read More …
Decisive Strategy to Advance your Emergency Department
An emergency department is often a patient’s first contact with a hospital, so a facility with efficient operations, good patient flow and a design that prioritizes a patient’s comfort speaks volumes. Read More …
Renewed Focus: New Guidance Released for Anti-Ligature Compliance
Identifying risks, remediation strategies in behavioral health facilities
Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. Although the majority of suicides occur outside the hospital environment, the industry has renewed its focus on designing facilities to avoid ligature risks. The Joint Commission and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently formalized new standards to help facility Read More …