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Designing the World's Best Children's Hospitals Volume 2 continues the unique approach to designing a successful pediatric health care facility, which has made Bruce King Komiske one of the industry's most in-demand design and management consultants. Following the success of the first volume of Designing the World's Best Children's Hospitals, this new publication is intended as an additional reference guide for teams of health care and design professionals, and parents, who engage in the exciting journey of creating a healing environment as they plan the construction or renovation of a children's hospital or pediatric unit. It also recognises the outstanding efforts of teams throughout the world for their contributions to health care and design. Chapters focus on hospital exterior design, lobbies, arts and gardens, the role of the community, the role of the parent in inpatient and specialized care areas, and project management.

Designing the World's Best Children's Hospitals is one of the most successful titles in the Designing the World's Best series. This book presents the unique approach to designing a successful pediatric health acre facility which has made Bruce King Komiske one of the industry's most in-demand design and management consultants. Weaving together various aspects of design for children's hospitals, this book explores in depth the emerging trends that define the modern health care facility. Komiske's facilities continue to attract international attention. The 'Parents as Partners' approach to both planning and operating aspects of a children's health facility, and the ongoing success of involving the community to foster a healing environment are central to this book and are the emerging trends behind the development of modern children's health facilities globally. Bruce Komiske is among the nine experts, including health care professionals, architects and interior designers, who present chapters. Hospitals featured are state-of-the-art facilites in the USA and the UK.

Showcases new children's hospital facilities Following the success of 'Designing the World's Best Children's Hospitals' 1 and 2, this new publication provides an up-to-date reference guide for healthcare teams, design professionals and community members, who together engage in the exciting process of creating new healing environments for children's hospitals or paediatric units. With chapters focusing on exterior design, lobbies, art and gardens, the role of the community, the role of the parent in inpatient and specialised care areas, and project management, this book recognises the outstanding efforts of teams throughout the world for their contributions to healthcare and design. Featuring more than 300 colour photographs this book brings together the many new facilities that have been completed since the publication of the previous book in this series, and demonstrates the significant progress made in recent years. AUTHOR: Bruce King Komiske, FACHE, is a healthcare executive and expert in planning, building, and engaging communities in creating world-class children's hospitals and healing environments. He has used his expertise to lead many teams that have set new standards for creativity, design excellence and family-centred care, including the award-winning Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island and the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital in Valhalla, New York. He is the editor of the two previous books in this series, as well as 'Heroes: The Story of Hasbro Children's Hospital' (ISBN: 9781864703467) and 'Maria's Wish: The Story of the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital' (ISBN: 9781864701463). SELLING POINTS: - Features more than 300 colour photographs of patient rooms, lobbies, exteriors, gardens, and other healing environments from children's hospitals across North America - Showcases more than 35 new facilities designed by world-leading firms including HKS, FKP Architects, KMD Architects, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects, HDR and AnshenAllenStantec - Author Bruce Komiske is a healthcare executive and expert in planning, building and creating world-class children's hospitals and healing environments 300 col.

Following the success of Designing the World’s Best Children’s Hospitals: Volumes 1, 2 and 3 and Maria’s Wish: the story of the Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, the latest children’s hospital title from IMAGES documents the development of the leading children’s hospital in Chicago, focusing on design, planning, construction and execution. In June 2012, the hospital moved to its current location and changed its name from Children’s Memorial Hospital to Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. The new name recognises philanthropist Ann Lurie and her late husband, in honour of the US$100 million gift she made in 2007 to help create the new hospital and enhance its paediatric research initiatives, which are described in this book.

The inspiring and hilarious story of Patch Adams's quest to bring free health care to the world and to transform the way doctors practice medicine • Tells the story of Patch Adam's lifetime quest to transform the health care system • Released as a film from Universal Pictures, starring Robin Williams Meet Patch Adams, M.D., a social revolutionary who has devoted his career to giving away health care. Adams is the founder of the Gesundheit Institute, a home-based medical practice that has treated more than 15,000 people for free, and that is now building a full-scale hospital that will be open to anyone in the world free of charge. Ambitious? Yes. Impossible? Not for those who know and work with Patch. Whether it means putting on a red clown nose for sick children or taking a disturbed patient outside to roll down a hill with him, Adams does whatever is necessary to help heal. In his frequent lectures at medical schools and international conferences, Adams's irrepressible energy cuts through the businesslike facade of the medical industry to address the caring relationship between doctor and patient that is at the heart of true medicine. All author royalties are used to fund The Gesundheit Institute, a 40-bed free hospital in West Virginia. Adams's positive vision and plan for the future is an inspiration for those concerned with the inaccessibility of affordable, quality health care. Today's high-tech medicine has become too costly, impersonal, and grim. In his frequent lectures to colleges, churches, community groups, medical schools, and conferences, Patch shows how healing can be a loving, creative, humorous human exchange--not a business transaction.