Interior Design

5 Ways to Strategize for Healthcare Facilities Planning

Managers need to incorporate more flexibility into their strategic facility planning to foster resiliency.

7/1/2022

Buy or Lease? Real Estate Considerations for Healthcare

The conversation about whether to buy or lease an existing facility is complicated and requires input from facility managers.

6/24/2022

Facility Guidelines Institute's White Paper Targets Design of Behavioral Health Facilities

Paper discusses role of behavioral health crisis units in providing behavioral and mental healthcare services.

6/14/2022

Hospitals Lighting Market to Reach $9 Million by 2028

Ongoing developments in lighting technology are creating a lucrative market.

6/2/2022

Healthcare Wayfinding Evolves During Pandemic

Wayfinding has proven essential to help patients, staff and visitors navigate hospitals.

5/26/2022

How to Incorporate Flexibility within Healthcare Facilities

Josh Domingo discusses how healthcare facilities can better design an environment that allows for a more flexible operation.

5/19/2022

Next-Generation Senior Living Design Focuses on Connection

New and renovated senior living developments will seek to link residents, families and surrounding communities.

5/12/2022

Furniture Manufacturers Predict Interior Design Trends

Fashion always comes back in style, but some interior design selections aren’t always as lucky.

5/11/2022

Flooring Longevity Matters in Healthcare Facilities

Flooring is the one surface area that is guaranteed to be touched by everyone, but why are designers unsure of finding long-term solutions?

5/6/2022

Each Piece of Furniture Plays an Essential Role Within a Healthcare Facility

Each piece of furniture is selected to provide patients with residents with the best care, but certain rooms require different functions.

5/4/2022

Interior Design Choices Play an Important Role within Healthcare Facilities

With an increased need for healthcare facilities, designers are being put to the test to create the best environment.

4/28/2022

How Designers Prioritize Safety When it Comes to Furniture

While furniture needs to be functional within healthcare facilities, it also needs to be safe.

4/27/2022

Why Healthcare Facilities Must Prioritize Furniture Decisions

The goal for all hospitals and healthcare facilities is to provide the best care possible, and furniture plays a role in that plan.

4/20/2022

What Healthcare Facilities Risk When They Choose the Wrong Paints

Paint selection is becoming increasingly more important within healthcare facilities.

4/19/2022

Risk, Cost Drive Managers’ Decisions on Flooring

Choosing lower-priced flooring options can put visitors, patients and employees at risk

4/18/2022

Four Trends Shaping Future of Healthcare Design

Telemedicine among key drivers of change within healthcare facilities

4/12/2022

UV-C Light Proves Essential for Facilities

Lighting has evolved over the last decade, but now UV-C has proven to be an essential tool within healthcare facilities.

4/7/2022

Interior Design’s Impact on Hospital Staffing

Managers need to upgrade facilities overall to make them as appealing as possible to current and potential employees

3/15/2022

Furniture Decisions Play an Important Role in Behavior Health Facilities

Designers must take into account appropriate furnishes and how they can be used by patients in these facilities.

3/2/2022

What the Future of Lighting Holds for Healthcare

UV-C lighting technology has proven to be effective, but how many healthcare facilities will buy into the trend?

2/10/2022

How Healthcare Facilities Can Benefit From Lighting Technology

Lighting manufacturers discuss the reasons more healthcare facilities should be using lighting technologies.

2/3/2022

Hospital Upgrade Creates Benefits Through Design Best Practices

DesignGroup has helped Wyandot Memorial Hospital address concerns regarding number of operating rooms, flexibility and patient experience.

1/28/2022

Presbyterian Village North Debuts Renovated Corrigan Building

The effort to update and enrich building’s commons is a major component of $35 million campus-wide repositioning effort.

1/28/2022

Lighting Technology Innovates During Pandemic

Lighting professionals discuss the way lighting technology has evolved.

1/26/2022

Evidence-Based Design Creates Healing Environments

Specific lighting, flooring and color choices offer a healing environment for patients.

1/24/2022

NEMA Issues New Lighting Glare Guidance

White paper explains original intent of unified glare rating, its proper uses, and common misuses

1/12/2022

Case Study: Bottom-Line Sustainability with Modular Casework

Strategy contributes to waste-reduction strategy with source reduction, efficient design and standardization

1/3/2022

Why Paint Choices Affect Patient Care

Paint colors play a role in the quality of care patients receive

12/17/2021

Design and the Pandemic: Flexibility and Wellness Emerge

Healthcare decision makers seek to optimize patient and provider experience to support healthier future

11/30/2021

5 Impacts of COVID-19 on Healthcare Facility Design and Technology

Managers should incorporate advanced technology throughout facilities, from patient rooms and lobbies to cafeterias and family spaces

11/19/2021

Open Layouts, Emerging Tech Among New Trends Entering Healthcare Facilities

Trends in healthcare facilities design have great impact on employees and patients

11/11/2021

Types of Flooring Matter in Hospitals

Poor acoustics attributed to flooring can lead to decreased patient wellness

11/5/2021

What’s Trending in Long-term Care Facility Design?

From on-site amenities to outdoor elements, these trends impact senior care facilities

10/7/2021

3 Tips for Designing Welcoming Healthcare Spaces

Healthcare design contributes to patient comfort and safety, as well as staff morale and productivity

9/24/2021

How Do Light Levels Affect Patient Health and Recovery?

Hospitalized patients often suffer from sleep deprivation due to environmental noise and interruptions from staff

9/21/2021

Hospital Design with Patient Sleep in Mind

Patient-care areas use noise-reducing materials, such as ceiling tiles that help with sound absorption

8/17/2021

Heale Medical Opens New Facility in Virginia

1,684-square-foot facility was designed by architecture firm //3877 with patient comfort in mind

8/9/2021

Getting Creative with Hospital Design

Hospitals seek design strategies that promote wellbeing of providers and patients

7/27/2021

How the Pandemic Influenced Healthcare Design

Learn how healthcare design is changing to improve better patient experience

7/14/2021

Lighting That Aims To Improve Human Health

Luminaire level lighting controls technology has potential to revolutionize lighting in healthcare facilities

7/13/2021

Expansion Elevates the Patient and Visitor Experience

See how Jefferson Health uses natural light, inviting spaces and a green roof in its design

7/9/2021

Hospital Design With Patients in Mind

Creating hospital room requires buy-in from team of patients, their advocates, providers, and architects

7/6/2021

New Hospital To Incorporate Lessons from COVID-19

Some of hospital’s 700 private rooms will be able to quickly convert to intensive care rooms

6/30/2021

Hospital Expansion Spotlights Flexible Spaces

Unit is designed with private universal rooms to flex between increasing demand for intensive care and step-down beds

6/25/2021

New Hospital’s Design Process Embraces Real Life

Architects, nurses and physicians collaborate to refine design of critical rooms at Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital

6/16/2021

Hospital Upgrades Reflect Impact of COVID-19

Facility to offer more single-occupancy rooms to decrease potential for spread of disease

6/11/2021

COVID-19 Fallout: Facilities That Can Flex

Planning for adaptability is one solution to future emergency situations

6/9/2021

Flexible Design for Hospitals of the Future — Today

Challenges from COVID-19 provide roadmap to help hospitals prepare for when — not if — next pandemic occurs

6/8/2021

Location, Location, Location: The Impact on Patient Care

Researchers used tracking chips to investigate the way facility layout affects patient care

6/8/2021

Infection Control and Interior Design: Making a Connection

Rethinking facility design to limit transmission of infections

6/7/2021

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