Across the nation, hospitals continue to see a decreasing need for medical/surgical patient rooms, but at the same time an increase in competition to fill the rooms that remain. To compete to fill their inpatient rooms, the trend within the industry has been to make the patient rooms feel less clinical. Designers are implementing concepts […]

I recently read on the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) website that 66 rural hospitals have closed since 2010. The closure rate is increasing. It was six times higher in 2015 than in 2010. A study the NRHA commissioned revealed that 673 rural hospitals are “vulnerable or at risk for closure.” Of this group, a large […]

Challenge In order to expand ambulatory services to provide additional capacity and necessary service line growth across their System, Mount Sinai tasked Array with conversion of a four-story Harlem garage into a 12-story medical office building. Amenities such as pharmacy and lab are sought after healthcare services for the neighborhood and requested as part of […]

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.

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.

Preparing a healthcare campus for a major transformation project requires many smaller projects to enable the building of the new facilities. As part of Array Architects’ extensive, network-wide facilities master plan for University Hospitals’ $1 billion transformation program, the re-evaluation, reorganization and relocation of numerous campus services was critical to improving patient care and operational […]

Several changes to the 2014 FGI Guidelines affect the physical space for behavior health spaces in stand-alone centers and in-hospital behavioral health units. Section 2.5–2.2 General Psychiatric Units was altered this year to add the requirement for a sally port in a locked unit at the primary entrance. The FGI guidelines define “sally port” in […]

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 […]