While patient experience, satisfaction and recovery rates are wise metrics to evaluate a health system, there are routine occupants that simply need a more supportive built environment: the healthcare workforce or the “clinician.” Healthcare delivery is inherently more complex today than ever before. straining staff. Technology changes, innovation is rapid and clinicians see more patients […]
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Our team at Array designed prefabricated exterior panels to clad the 473,000 SF medical center. Aside from one spot where a steel support was installed at the wrong elevation and resulted in an adjustment in the shop, costly rework in the shop was averted for the entire prefabricated façade. The key to the exterior façade’s […]
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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 […]
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Behavioral healthcare remains an underfunded service line, and Array strives to promote the important work of our clients who are focusing on this stigmatized specialty. In recent years, we’ve worked with Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters, One Brooklyn Health System, Holyoke Medical Center, Children’s National Hospital and others to expand behavioral health services. That […]
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Originally featured in Healthcare Design Magazine, February 2020. A new cancer center opens only to require renovations six months later because volumes weren’t understood prior to construction. A health system kicks off a hybrid operating room addition without first identifying what services would be performed in that space. A multicampus health system moves forward on […]
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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 […]
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As architects specializing in healthcare, we long to create built environments that make a mark both aesthetically and operationally. We want to design a space that is scientifically measured to deliver a positive user experience, operational efficiency, high quality of care and effective safety and infection control. To this end, Post Occupancy Evaluations (POEs) are […]
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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 […]
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