How will hospitals design future healthcare spaces after the pandemic? As COVID-19 is impacting every facet of our healthcare systems, frontline workers will have a voice in how we prepare for the future. As such, listening and learning from them will be a fascinating and challenging...

Founded in 1985, not-for-profit health system Mainline Health has become a reliable fixture in Pennsylvania because of its high-performance hospitals and healthcare centers across the state. To support its rapid growth, Mainline Health enlisted the help of Francis Cauffman Architects...

The Covid-19 virus has required healthcare facilities to make extraordinary changes to accommodate the influx of patients to their Emergency Departments and ICU units. What do these changes mean for the future of healthcare design, when the virus is under control? FCA’s creative...

In this series, Healthcare Design asks leading healthcare design professionals, firms, and owners to tell us what’s got their attention and share some ideas on the subject.

FCA has announced the opening of its new Florida office, located in Orlando.

Orlando is currently the 2nd fastest growing region in the United States. Recent changes to Florida's Certificate of Need requirements in healthcare show a tremendous potential for significant capital...

In this series, Healthcare Design asks leading healthcare design professionals, firms, and owners to tell us what’s got their attention and share some ideas on the subject.

Catherine Gow is the principal of health facilities planning for Francis Cauffman Architects (New York and...

Exploring door hardware & access solution trends in healthcare facilities
by Stephen Jouflas

Multiple influences are driving today's trends of hardware and access control in healthcare facilities, including increased security needs, evolving technologies and changes to healthcare...

Large Health/Wellness
FCA
Project: Brooklyn Health Center, Downtown Brooklyn
Photography: Chis Cooper

In response to rising demand from the community, Chilton Medical Center (CMC) developed a Pediatric Hybrid Unit combining pediatric emergency services and inpatient rooms in one unit within the hospital.

When the New York Hotel Trades Council, a union for hotel and gambling workers in New York and Northern New Jersey, outgrew its health center in Brooklyn, NY, and decided to build its members a replacement facility, two goals were at the forefront.