Xianchao Wang
Center for Care and Discovery, UChicago
With the need of expanding an existing facility for University of Chicago Medicine, a brand new hospital - the Center for Care and...
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Alexus Davis
Views to Nature in Hospitals
Panoramic Views from a Patient Room at the University of Chicago Center for Care and Discovery The University Chicago Medical Center is...
Xianchao Wang
Churches in North Lawndale
While we were doing the site analysis for our design, I found out there were quite a number of churches within North Lawndale community....
Luz Upegui
Rurality
This is one variable in the disparity of access to healthcare. People who live in rural areas face many more factors in living healthy...
Warm reception at Stantec
Marybeth Dietz, Peter Kao, Kelsi Stevens, Alex Tsaparis and others introduce Stantec to our students. With presentations by Andrew...
Alex Rasky
Focal Point
Julia Louie, Project Manager at HDR, met with us to discuss the design of “Focal Point”. Julia has been working on this project for about...
Alex Rasky
Healthy Living Centers
Doug King of Stantec discussed Population Health Management with us. He defined Population Health Management as, "A systematic approach...
Luz Upegui
Efficiency: In n' Out
Similar to California's well known fast food restaurant IN-N-OUT, the idea for efficiency in hospitals and clinics is to get patients in...
Shirlo Selvam
Flip side of the City
In the recent decades, Architects and Urban planners have been acknowledging that some of their experiments failed miserably and are...
Shirlo Selvam
Healthy City - The Public Realm and the streets of America
" A healthy city is one that is continually creating and improving those physical and social environments and expanding those community...
Community Health Centers
The development of Health Centers began about 50 years ago when President Lyndon Johnson declared the “War against Poverty”. They play a...
Shirlo Selvam
There is someone in the Hallway
After a discussion with Mr. Erik Andersen, at Forum Studio and with a small discussion with Professor William Worn, we came to an...
Federally Qualified Health Centers
Federally Qualified Health Centers are community-based healthcare providers, serving the under-served community and low income group....
Lena Reiff
Payer Mix - How Hospitals Survive
How exactly does a physician, hospital, or care center get reimbursed for the services they provide? As discussed in past blogs,...
Luz Upegui
re·sil·ience
What is the definition of resilience? According to dictionary.com: noun 1.the power or ability to return to the original form, position,...
Value-Based Healthcare
Traditionally, healthcare providers were getting a “fee for service” i.e they were reimbursed based on the number of visits or tests....
Xianchao Wang
Heartland Health Centers
Heartland Health Centers is a federally qualified health center (FQHC) with more than15 locations in Chicago. We visited the one at...
Xianchao Wang
Illinois Medical District
Our first site visit was to go to Illinois Medical District. We went to Rush University Medical Center, Stroger Hospital and the UIC...
Xianchao Wang
Health Living Centers & Public Health
Doug King, a senior architect and principle of Stantec, gave us an excellent lecture on “Health Living Centers: Towards a...
Xianchao Wang
Gensler
Gensler is one of the biggest architectural firm in the world, we were fortunate enough to have a visit to Gensler’s Chicago office. Our...
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