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VCU/MCV Critical Care Hospital
The Virginia Commonwealth open the new Critical Care Hospital,
replacing all critical care beds, and expanding acute nursing units,
surgery suite, NICU, public lobby, central sterile, and other
components. Programs by Frank Zilm & Associates, Inc. and Orr
Architectural Consulting, this project is the first phase of a master
plan developed by Robert Douglass, FAIA.
HKS, Inc. were the design architects. |
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Cleveland Clinic Heart Hospital
The Cleveland Clinic opened its new Sydell and Arnold Miller Family
Pavilion and the Glickman Tower in September, 2008, a major addition
housing heart and other services, including inpatient and critical care
beds. Designed by Bostwick Design Partnership and NBBJ, the
surgery, cardiology and critical care components were programmed by
Frank Zilm & Associates, Inc. |
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Tampa General Opens New "All Risk" ready Emergency Department
One of the first emergency facilities to incorporate recommendations
from the Office of Homeland Security "ER-One" study, Tampa General
Hospital recently opened new facilities as part of a major addition to
the campus. The 65,000 square foot facility has the capability to
virtually triple its capacity through utilization of public spaces,
offices, and doubling of exam room capacity. See the Tampa ED
article for a description of the planning process and design concepts. |
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Care Medical Research Addition Open at UC Designed by
Studios Architects, this 200,000 square foot building provides major
biomedical research, education, and administrative upgrades to the
University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Frank Zilm & Associates,
Inc. lead the master planning and programming services for the project. |
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New Article on Emergency Department Planning The July,
2007 issue of The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management includes an
article by Frank Zilm on new trends in planning for emergency services.
The article explores recent utilization patterns and organizational
models for care and facilities implication.
A PDF copy of the article can be view by open the file "New
Generation of ED." |
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Research Study on Net to Gross Ratios nears completion
A research study of departmental net to gross ratios conducted
by Clemson and Texas A&M universities has recently been
published.
This study, funded by Frank Zilm & Associates, Inc. and others,
analyzes grossing ratios for five hospital departments
experiencing rapid change - surgery, ER, ICU, acute med/surgical
nursing units and imaging. See link on left of this page
to download a cope of the report.. |
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Emergency Service Exam Room Study
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Zilm & Associates, Inc. sponsored a research study on the
emergency service exam room. This Student project is a
combined effort of architecture and industrial design student,
led by Professors Kent Spreckelmeyer and Richard Brandon.
Mock-up room layouts were recently tested with staff at North
Kansas City Hospital. A PDF of the study is posted in the
left column "KU Study" |
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New Article on ED Design and Epidemics The
March, 2006 issue of Health Facilities Management (Vol. 19, No
3), includes "Planning for the Worst: Is your emergency facility
ready for epidemic and special-risk patients," authored by Frank
Zilm. The article outlines key design issues for the
protection of staff, the hospital and patients when presented
with special risk infectious patients or in the event of an
epidemic. A PDF copy of the article is available for
review. |
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ER-One Receives National Honor
The AIA Academy on Architecture for Health
and Modern Healthcare magazine recently awarded the ER-One study
one of two Citations for design excellence. This study, funded
by the office of Homeland Security, has developed a set of
recommendation and design concepts for a new generation of
emergency facilities that can respond to potential events
ranging for natural disasters to terrorist attacks. Frank Zilm
served as a consultant to the team for programming and design
concepts. HKS Inc. And Picard Chilton Architects are the prime
contractors for this study. |
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| Frank Zilm has been appointed to the Board of the Coalition
for Health Environments Research. This organization
recently joined force with the Center for Health Design.
This should enable a coordinated approach for research related
to the health environment. Please contact Frank if
you have any suggestions for evidence-based research related to
health facilities. |
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| The July issue of the Journal of Ambulatory Management
includes a lead article on "Estimating Emergency Treatment
Bed Needs" by Frank Zilm This paper presents a comprehensive
analysis of factors that can should be evaluated in estimating
emergency service treatment needs Results of simulation models
of typical patient flow and length of stay patterns are
presented, with tabular listing of the resulting bed needs A pdf
copy of this article is included on this web page. |
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| Check the June 2003 issue of Health Facilities Management
for the article "ED innovations: New Challenges require new
ideas," authored by Frank Zilm and Jim Lennon. Or click on
the menu item at the left to download a scanned pdf file of the
article. |
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| The January-March 2003 issue of the Journal of Ambulatory
Care Management features a lead article by Frank Zilm, Kristyna
Culp and Beverley Doorney on "Virtual Ambulatory Care:
Computer Simulation Applications." |
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| An article in the December issue of Health Facilities
Magazine reviews the recently opened South Pointe Medical Center
addition The addition includes a new surgery suite, critical
care addition, and education/training space for the osteopathic
residency program based on the campus A unique element of the
critical care unit is a decentralized nursing work area,
clustering four patient rooms around a carting workstation. |
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| The sixth edition of the
Space
Planner Toolkit is in production and should be available
shortly through the AHA. New sections include medical office,
short stay, separate inpatient psychiatry and skilled nursing,
cardiac rehabilitation, recalibration of selected space
allocations and other format modifications. |
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