Helping Patients Regain Their Lives: UAB Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility
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Tag Archive: Value-Added Design
Lessening That Sinking Feeling: Reducing the “Sunk” Cost of Bypass Pumping
*Cameron Traylor, P.E. and Justin Avent, P.E. also contributed to this post.
The word bypass means different things to different people. For some, it brings to mind a cardiac procedure that uses blood vessels from another part of the body …
Building for the Next 50 Years: M.T. Mustian Center at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital
In June 2016, Tallahassee Memorial Hospital (TMH) broke ground on the M.T. Mustian Center—a 72-bed surgical and adult ICU center named in honor of the late Middleton Truett “M.T.” Mustian, the hospital’s former president and longtime administrator. I served as …
A Freestanding Evolution: UAB Medicine Primary Care & Specialty Care at Gardendale
To accommodate the growing demand for outpatient healthcare services at UAB Medicine, the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation embarked on a more than 70,000-square-foot renovation and expansion of its Whitaker Clinic building at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. Gresham …
Applying Lean Thinking to Healthcare Facility Design: A Before and After Approach
A system for continuous improvement, Lean has been adopted into hospital and healthcare facility design to add value by eliminating waste from existing processes, improving workflows, maximizing efficiency, enhancing the staff and patient experience, and improving that all-important bottom line.…