Bernstein & Associates, Architects recently completed an emergency department design feasibility study for a hospital in New York.
The emergency department is a key aspect of the functioning of a modern hospital. It accounts for a large percentage of admissions, and is integrated with all of the departments in the hospital. These facilities can have huge swings in patient population, and despite earlier predictions, ER visits continue to rise.
Common goals in any ER renovation, including this one, will be: reduce wait time, reduce percentage of patients who leave without having been seen, increase patient and staff safety and comfort, and use technology effectively in making this department in providing more efficient and better care.
Scope of work envisioned in this feasibility study includes: general construction, demolition, concrete, millwork, windows/glass,doors & hardware, drywall/ceilings, ceramic tile, flooring, painting, specialties, window treatments, fire protection, plumbing, hvac, and electrical.
The consulting work was well received by our hospital client.
For more information about emergency department design, emergency department planning, emergency department architecture, and emergency department interior design, go to http://bernarch.com/healthcare-design-emergency-departments/.
About Healthcare Architect Bernstein & Associates, Architects:
Healthcare architecture firm Bernstein & Associates, Architects (www.bernarch.com) is known for innovative healthcare planning, healthcare design, healthcare architecture, and healthcare interior design.
Additional ways to follow the firm's Healthcare design philosophy and healthcare design news, is through the firm’s healthcare design blog at www.bernarch.blogspot.com, as well as the firm’s healthcare design Twitter account at www.twitter.com/Hospitals,
https://www.facebook.com/bernsteinarchitects/, and https://www.linkedin.com/company/bernstein-&-associates-architects.
For more information about healthcare planning, healthcare architecture, healthcare equipment planning, and healthcare interior design, please contact:
Bernstein & Associates, Architects
122 E 42nd St, - 17th Floor, New York, NY 10168
Tel: 212-463-8200
Email: info@bernarch.com
www.bernarch.com
New York – Hartford – Charlottesville - Los Angeles
Showing posts with label Emergency Department Design. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 28, 2017
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Psychiatric ED Project Awarded to Bernstein & Associates, Architects
The Psychiatric Emergency Department (Psych ED department), will be a new building designed to house a new psychiatric ED program for a hospital in New York. Services provided will include behavioral healthcare programming, behavioral healthcare design, behavioral healthcare architecture, and behavioral healthcare furniture and fixture specification,
The architect-of-record will be Bernstein and Associates, Architects, with James Hunt and the Behavioral Healthcare Architecture Group providing programmatic and design consulting.
Design of behavioral healthcare space is a specialty of both Bernstein & Associates Architects with James Hunt (http://bernarch.com/healthcare-design-psychiatric/) and the Behavioral Healthcare Architecture Group (http://bharchgroup.com/)
About Healthcare Architect Bernstein & Associates, Architects:
Healthcare architecture firm Bernstein & Associates, Architects (www.bernarch.com) is known for innovative healthcare planning, healthcare design, healthcare architecture, and healthcare interior design.
Additional ways to follow the firm's Healthcare design philosophy and healthcare design news, is through the firm’s healthcare design blog at www.bernarch.blogspot.com, as well as the firm’s healthcare design Twitter accounts at www.twitter.com/BernsteinArch and www.twitter.com/Hospitals, https://www.facebook.com/bernsteinarchitects/, and https://www.linkedin.com/company/bernstein-&-associates-architects.
For Behavioral Health Design see, http://bernarch.com/healthcare-design-behavioral-health/
For Psychiatric Design see, http://bernarch.com/healthcare-design-psychiatric/
For Mental Health Design see, http://bernarch.com/healthcare-design-mental-health/
For more information about behavioral healthcare planning, behavioral healthcare architecture, behavioral healthcare equipment planning, and behavioral healthcare interior design, please contact:
Bernstein & Associates, Architects
1201 Broadway - 803, New York, NY 10001
Tel: 212-463-8200
Email: info@bernarch.com
www.bernarch.com
New York – Hartford – Princeton – Charlottesville - Los Angeles
The architect-of-record will be Bernstein and Associates, Architects, with James Hunt and the Behavioral Healthcare Architecture Group providing programmatic and design consulting.
Design of behavioral healthcare space is a specialty of both Bernstein & Associates Architects with James Hunt (http://bernarch.com/healthcare-design-psychiatric/) and the Behavioral Healthcare Architecture Group (http://bharchgroup.com/)
About Healthcare Architect Bernstein & Associates, Architects:
Healthcare architecture firm Bernstein & Associates, Architects (www.bernarch.com) is known for innovative healthcare planning, healthcare design, healthcare architecture, and healthcare interior design.
Additional ways to follow the firm's Healthcare design philosophy and healthcare design news, is through the firm’s healthcare design blog at www.bernarch.blogspot.com, as well as the firm’s healthcare design Twitter accounts at www.twitter.com/BernsteinArch and www.twitter.com/Hospitals, https://www.facebook.com/bernsteinarchitects/, and https://www.linkedin.com/company/bernstein-&-associates-architects.
For Behavioral Health Design see, http://bernarch.com/healthcare-design-behavioral-health/
For Psychiatric Design see, http://bernarch.com/healthcare-design-psychiatric/
For Mental Health Design see, http://bernarch.com/healthcare-design-mental-health/
For more information about behavioral healthcare planning, behavioral healthcare architecture, behavioral healthcare equipment planning, and behavioral healthcare interior design, please contact:
Bernstein & Associates, Architects
1201 Broadway - 803, New York, NY 10001
Tel: 212-463-8200
Email: info@bernarch.com
www.bernarch.com
New York – Hartford – Princeton – Charlottesville - Los Angeles
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Emergency Department Design Trends
Emergency Department Design Trends - New Article to be Published
Well known hospital architecture firm Bernstein & Associates, Architects is pleased to announce the publication of an article on current emergency department (ED) design trends. Topics discussed include:
- Trends in ED patient type and volume.
- How to start the ED design process.
- The impact of built-in design flexibility on ED longevity and quality of care.
- Different types of ED layouts.
- Advantages of “linear” and “pod” ED layouts.
- Prerequisites for a successful pod layout.
- Trends towards standardized exam rooms and “flexible-use planning”.
- Trends away from departmentally dedicated spaces within the ED.
- How to design and equip a flexible-use exam room.
- Specialties which need individualized spaces.
- Pre-admission rooms and pre-release observation units.
- The basics of Lean design guidelines.
- How to perform a pre-design Lean analysis.
- Advantages of optimizing workflow as the first step of the design process.
- Input required for a successful Lean analysis.
- The importance of minimizing cross-traffic and walking distances.
- The importance of promoting patient calm and comfort.
- The balance between visibility and patient privacy.
- Lighting considerations.
- Shielding of entryways for ambulance patients.
- Designing family and visitor-friendly exam rooms.
- The importance of proper technology selection.
- Self-service kiosks for registration and other purposes.
- The advantages of wireless PC technology linked to the ED network.
- The use of RFID tags and scanners to track patients and instantly update records.
- Importance of designing for possible disaster capacity scenarios.
- Inclusion of multiple entry portals for disaster situations.
- Isolated entrances for contaminated patients.
- Independent power and water systems.
- Engineering and support “modules” to enable more effective quarantine.
- Requirement for air-isolation rooms.
- Using waiting and parking spaces as care spaces in dire situations.
© 2010 by William N. Bernstein, LEED®AP, AIA and Manu Venkat. Well known hospital architect Mr. Bernstein is a principal of hospital architecture firm Bernstein & Associates, Architects (www.bernarch.com), which is focused on smart hospital renovations for hospital clients, with offices in New York, Hartford, Princeton and Los Angeles. The firm is known for innovative hospital planning, hospital design, hospital architecture and hospital interior design. Additional ways to follow the hospital design philosophy and hospital design news, is through the firm’s hospital design blog at www.bernarch.blogspot.com, as well as the firm’s hospital design Twitter account at www.twitter.com/hospitals
For more information about emergency department design, emergency department planning, emergency department architecture, and emergency department interior design, go to http://bernarch.com/healthcare-design-emergency-departments/. Or please contact:
Hospital Architects in New York (Headquarters)
Bernstein & Associates, Architects 59 West 19th St, New York, NY 10011
Email: info@bernarch.com
Hospital Architects in Hartford
Bernstein & Associates, Architects 100 Pearl St. - 14th Floor, Hartford, CT 06103
Email: info@bernarch.com
Hospital Architects in Princeton
Bernstein & Associates, Architects 103 Carnegie Center, Suite 300, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Email: info@bernarch.com
Hospital Architects in Los Angeles
Bernstein & Associates, Architects 1405 Woodruff Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90024
Email: info@bernarch.com
Well known hospital architecture firm Bernstein & Associates, Architects is pleased to announce the publication of an article on current emergency department (ED) design trends. Topics discussed include:
- Trends in ED patient type and volume.
- How to start the ED design process.
- The impact of built-in design flexibility on ED longevity and quality of care.
- Different types of ED layouts.
- Advantages of “linear” and “pod” ED layouts.
- Prerequisites for a successful pod layout.
- Trends towards standardized exam rooms and “flexible-use planning”.
- Trends away from departmentally dedicated spaces within the ED.
- How to design and equip a flexible-use exam room.
- Specialties which need individualized spaces.
- Pre-admission rooms and pre-release observation units.
- The basics of Lean design guidelines.
- How to perform a pre-design Lean analysis.
- Advantages of optimizing workflow as the first step of the design process.
- Input required for a successful Lean analysis.
- The importance of minimizing cross-traffic and walking distances.
- The importance of promoting patient calm and comfort.
- The balance between visibility and patient privacy.
- Lighting considerations.
- Shielding of entryways for ambulance patients.
- Designing family and visitor-friendly exam rooms.
- The importance of proper technology selection.
- Self-service kiosks for registration and other purposes.
- The advantages of wireless PC technology linked to the ED network.
- The use of RFID tags and scanners to track patients and instantly update records.
- Importance of designing for possible disaster capacity scenarios.
- Inclusion of multiple entry portals for disaster situations.
- Isolated entrances for contaminated patients.
- Independent power and water systems.
- Engineering and support “modules” to enable more effective quarantine.
- Requirement for air-isolation rooms.
- Using waiting and parking spaces as care spaces in dire situations.
© 2010 by William N. Bernstein, LEED®AP, AIA and Manu Venkat. Well known hospital architect Mr. Bernstein is a principal of hospital architecture firm Bernstein & Associates, Architects (www.bernarch.com), which is focused on smart hospital renovations for hospital clients, with offices in New York, Hartford, Princeton and Los Angeles. The firm is known for innovative hospital planning, hospital design, hospital architecture and hospital interior design. Additional ways to follow the hospital design philosophy and hospital design news, is through the firm’s hospital design blog at www.bernarch.blogspot.com, as well as the firm’s hospital design Twitter account at www.twitter.com/hospitals
For more information about emergency department design, emergency department planning, emergency department architecture, and emergency department interior design, go to http://bernarch.com/healthcare-design-emergency-departments/. Or please contact:
Hospital Architects in New York (Headquarters)
Bernstein & Associates, Architects 59 West 19th St, New York, NY 10011
Email: info@bernarch.com
Hospital Architects in Hartford
Bernstein & Associates, Architects 100 Pearl St. - 14th Floor, Hartford, CT 06103
Email: info@bernarch.com
Hospital Architects in Princeton
Bernstein & Associates, Architects 103 Carnegie Center, Suite 300, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Email: info@bernarch.com
Hospital Architects in Los Angeles
Bernstein & Associates, Architects 1405 Woodruff Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90024
Email: info@bernarch.com
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