Co-authored by Morgan Young. In 2019, the Lebanon, PA Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center tapped Miller Remick and Array Architects to design and construct a Community Living Center (CLC) that follows the VA standard small house model for their campus. Little did the team know that the pandemic was about to fundamentally change how age-in-place […]
Recent work at Array prompted our design team to compile crucial guidance for designing facilities in hurricane zones. For example, a health facility located on a tropical island requires considerations of building movement, sustainability, and resiliency. Keeping these factors at the forefront of the design process helps ensure safety, optimal use of capital dollars and […]
An emerging best practice for behavioral health environments is to design spaces that minimize or eliminate areas where patients are secluded or restrained. The aim is to develop an environment designed to de-escalate, avoiding situations where medical staff need to physically intervene and restrain patients, which can be a traumatic act. Behavioral health environments often […]
Welcome to our Clinician-Centered Design blog series, where we showcase guidance and design strategies to mitigate staff burnout, promote well-being and quantify the impact design solutions. Start from the beginning of this series here. | This blog was co-authored by Lisa Lipschutz and Madeline Hill, a former interior designer at Array. The interactions at the […]
Authors Diana Louden and Lauren Michaels contributed to this piece. Imagine yourself as a nurse, nine hours into your 12-hour ICU shift. After watching your favorite patient take an unexpected turn for the worse, you manage to break away for just a minute to sit. Utter exhaustion overtakes you. Your feet hurt from standing, your […]
First ran in HealthcareDesign Magazine, July 2020. Stay-at-home orders and an intense focus on flattening the curve led many outpatient facilities to close their doors during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, as many healthcare providers are resuming outpatient services and reopening their facilities, they need to address how to ameliorate patient […]
This blog was co-authored by Rosana Bassi. When health systems expand, support services often need to grow to support increased volumes. A common example of this is the expansion of Central Sterile Processing Departments (CPSD) following the opening of additional operating rooms. Array recently led a project to meet this need for Mount Sinai West […]
This blog was co-authored by Keith Urio and David Lam. As the COVID-19 hospital admittance continues in New York City, New York Presbyterian (NYP) reached out to Array to assist them with designing and constructing temporary field hospitals. The Health System identified three locations in Manhattan for implementation of these hospitals. All locations would treat […]
