“It’s craziness but this stuff is really happening,” said Gary Collins, senior director, healthcare at Virtual Energy Solutions, after showing news accounts and video clips of staff assaults at healthcare facilities to attendees at the 2021 Healthcare Design Expo & Conference. In fact, nearly 75 percent of the almost 25,000 assaults and other workplace violence reported annually in the U.S occur in a healthcare setting. During the session “Security Directors: What PDC Teams Need To Hear About Designing Your Next healthcare

Current projects: I’m working on a 230,000-square-foot, 10-story comprehensive cancer center comprising new and renovated inpatient and outpatient care spaces. We collaborated with a large, diverse group of users to plan several departments in a way that increases face time of staff with one another and patients. Best advice you’ve received: My favorite quote is by Mahatma Gandhi: “Be the change you want to see in the world.” After I went to study at UC Berkeley, I learned no one healthcare

St. Luke’s Health Network (Bethlehem, Pa.) is planning to open St. Luke’s Carbon Campus hospital in Lehighton, Pa., this month, according to an article in wnep.com. The 155,000-square-foot, four-story facility will offer trauma emergency, acute, and critical care services and feature a 17-bed emergency department (ED), 12 intensive care unit (ICU) beds, operating rooms (ORs), private inpatient rooms, and radiology services. healthcare

Douglas King’s 41-year career has been dedicated to helping healthcare systems around the world design, develop, and renovate facilities that respond to emerging industry trends. Specifically, his work has focused on broad topics such as community health/population health management, vertical building design for limited land use, and rapid response to emergencies such as natural disasters and global pandemics—serving as critical expertise for the latter last year. In spring 2020, King helped oversee the conversion of three halls within Chicago’s McCormick healthcare

Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System (Muskogee, Okla.) is planning to open a new 58-bed VA hospital in Tulsa, Okla., according to an article in blogs.va.gov. The 90-bed hospital will be part of the Oklahoma State University Medical Center Campus in Stillwater, Okla., and will include a community living center, long-term acute care, hospice, geriatric psychiatry, inpatient psychiatry, and substance abuse treatment services. The hospital is slated to be completed in 2024. healthcare