Authored by Mike Ryley and Joe Garrity Featured on FacilityCare in April 2015. Utilizing KaiNexus – a cloud-based platform that allows cross-office access to improvement projects – to identify and track an opportunity for improvement (OI) is an intuitive way to manage enhancement efforts firm-wide.

Featured on FacilityCare in April 2015. Utilizing KaiNexus – a cloud-based platform that allows cross-office access to improvement projects – to identify and track an opportunity for improvement (OI) is an intuitive way to manage enhancement efforts firm-wide.

The US Healthcare System is an evolving and dynamic marketplace with constantly developing technologies, fluid clinical processes and procedures, changing regulatory pressures, as well as socio-economic and demographic shifts affecting consumer demand and utilization. Successful healthcare organizations often re-evaluate market strategy and adjust their business models to address opportunities and challenges as they present themselves. […]

Using simulation and process improvement tools, Array’s healthcare systems engineering staff strives to create a better patient experience by combining efficient workflows with effective spatial planning.  Continuously advancing our own productivity and design culture is also a top priority and the team works toward improvement in each aspect of our delivery process.

I spend my time on site photographing mistakes.  Not really, but that’s how I’m perceived, since much of my time walking through the construction site is spent observing the work-in-progress, and photo-documenting places where it deviates from Array’s construction documents or from best practice. Somebody’s got to do it. It’s interesting to take stock of […]

Learning from and sharing knowledge with other industry professionals, even the competition, is what makes us all better at what we do.

This article was co-written by Kent Doss, AIA, NCARB, LEED BD+C, LGB and Jon Sell, a Designer and Planner at Array Architects.

Being an interior designer with an architectural firm that strictly focuses on healthcare, I have the opportunity to work with several of the leading organizations in healthcare design.