THE HOSPITAL PROJECT TEAM IS THE FIRST IN LOS ANGELES TO DEPLOY THIS TECHNOLOGY ON AN ACTIVE JOBSITE.
July 10, 2020
LOS ANGELES, CA For our expansion project at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, the contractor, Skanska, is using an electronic tagging system to keep its 150 construction workers six feet apart and issue alerts if workers get too close. The technology mitigates the potential Covid-19 health risks to workers as well as potential schedule delays to the project.
KMD’S HEALTHCARE DESIGN EXPERTS ARE ADVISING CLIENTS ON DESIGN CHANGES TO MEET THE POTENTIAL DEMANDS OF CURRENT AND FUTURE PANDEMICS
June 15, 2020
KIRKLAND, WA | SAN FRANCISCO, CA In February, EvergreenHealth Medical Center was the first U.S. hospital to report a COVID-19 fatality, and subsequently received patients with the virus from the assisted-living facility Life Care Center of Kirkland. In light of the ongoing pandemic and its experience with SARS, EvergreenHealth is in the process of altering the design for a 20-bed critical care unit (CCU). The redesign allows EvergreenHealth to convert 16 traditional patient rooms in the CCU to negative pressure rooms when needed, said Chris Rubright, director of medical planning and a health care principal for kmd. kmd is the architect and interior designer on the CCU, which will be built on a floor that is now shelled space. Garett Buckingham, director of design and construction with EvergreenHealth, said the unit's redesign adds two new exhaust fans, rather than using the hospital's existing system, so Evergreen can make more rooms elsewhere in the hospital negative pressure if needed.
NEW MARK REED EVALUATION & TREATMENT CENTER (E&T) WILL SERVE LOCAL COMMUNITY
August 14, 2019
McCLEARY, WA This summer we celebrated the ribbon cutting for a new inpatient care facility for individuals experiencing substance abuse or an acute behavioral health crisis. KMD worked with the Great Rivers Behavioral Health Organization and Telecare Corporation to remodel the 1950s era, fire damaged Mark Reed Hospital to serve as a new Evaluation and Treatment Center.
NEW PATIENT CARE TOWER
May 3, 2018
LOS ANGELES, CA The new 174,954 SF acute care services replacement hospital building will replace the existing building at an estimated cost of $291 million. The construction represents the final portion of a three-phase, $350 million campus upgrade, $300 million of which is being funded through a federal government loan and financial institutions in recognition of the fact that this construction project is meaningful toward enhancing the public healthcare needs of the surrounding community.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR VERY OWN JIM DIAZ
November 13, 2016
ACHA awarded the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award to James R. Diaz, FAIA, FACHA, at the ACHA Annual Luncheon during the Healthcare Design Expo + Conference in Houston on November 13, 2016.
DESIGN FOR EFFICIENCY IN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
August 16, 2016
Achieving operational economy through facility design is the central focus of designing for efficiency in healthcare facilities. The economies can impact building size and shape as well as staff savings. The staff savings are sometimes related to helping nurses spend more time at a patient’s bed side as well as opportunities to reduce the total number of staff needed to operate a hospital.
PATIENT CENTERED CARE
January 14, 2016
Patient-centered care has become a phrase repeated often as one of the tenets of successful healthcare delivery, and its overuse has led to misuse in its application on efforts to move towards a model of patient-centered care.
DESIGNING FOR MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (MERS)—
AIRBORNE INFECTIOUS ISOLATION PATIENT FACILITIES: A CASE STUDY
November 18, 2015
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus first appeared in Saudi Arabia in April 2012, and while found throughout the Arabian Peninsula, 85% of the cases identified have been in Saudi Arabia. Of these, 67% have been in the Al-Ahsa region of the Eastern Province, in which the city of Dammam is located. In addition to MERS, tuberculosis is also not uncommon in the region. The travel in and out of the area by the large population of foreign workers who come to the oil fields of the Eastern Province has the potential to rapidly spread MERS to all parts of the globe.