The former Huzhou Central Hospital was a high-rise facility hemmed in by similar buildings in the city’s traditional downtown. The setup created a cramped experience for staff, patients, and their families, says hospital director Ma Jianming. When it came time to replace the 1940s facility, hospital officials purposely chose a site about three miles away with a distinctly different vibe: a 42-acre campus on the southern banks of Tai Lake. While the buildings on the site take up 2.6  million healthcare

Faced with an aging facility, the Munroe-Meyer Institute (MMI) in Omaha, Neb., set out to transform a former office building into a new home for the research institute and specialty clinic. The goal was for it to house the institute’s more than 100 services for individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities. The project, submitted to the Design Showcase by Altus Architectural Studios Inc. (Omaha), was completed in June 2021. It includes a 200,000-square-foot renovation of the office building as well as 21,000 healthcare

Healthcare design projects are unique by nature, each responding to the specific needs of an organization and community to support the program housed within its walls. And that’s exactly how the judging of the Healthcare Design Showcase submissions is approached—projects aren’t weighed or pitted against one another, but rather assessed on their own merit and how well the end design provides an environment that achieves initial goals. The goal is for the process to result in a rich diversity of healthcare

The new 180,000-square-foot Emory Executive Park Musculoskeletal Institute (EMSK) in Atlanta is the latest addition to the Emory’s Executive Park Innovation District. It brings orthopedics and spine care, physical therapy, imaging, and ambulatory surgery, as well as clinical and research space together under one roof. The design of the six-story facility, which opened in October 2021, was inspired by the institute’s goal to restore fluidity of motion and structural components of the human body. For example, the research department on healthcare

Engineering firm Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH; Waltham, Mass.) has hired Derrick Watkins as a principal. Watkins joins SGH’s engineering mechanics and infrastructure division and will be located in San Diego. He brings 27 years of industry experience, specializing in seismic analysis for nonstructural components, such as heating, cooling, and piping systems; high-end structural analysis and finite-element modeling; and impact modeling analysis to assess extreme loading conditions. The post Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Expands Engineering Staff first appeared on HCD healthcare