Case Studies Healthcare

When it comes to building and maintaining a hospital, attention to detail is paramount—from the color of the paint to the quality of the air. After all, the hospital itself is like a living, breathing organism: The more seamlessly its parts work together, the healthier it is. This holds especially true for Pennsylvania’s Lancaster Medical […]

Most people are tired of talking about the COVID-19 virus, especially more than two years after the first reported U.S. cases and coronavirus related lockdowns. But for Peter Scarpati, the pandemic is the impetus for a lot of the things he’s doing as the director of operations for the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. As a […]

While serving in the Peace Corps in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, after graduating college, Patrick Gavin vividly remembers being bitten by a bug—though thankfully it wasn’t a tsetse fly, a local pest that can cause debilitating illness. Instead, the Michigan native caught the “bug” for construction and engineering. Part of his duties […]

When Patrick Bonds walks through the halls of South Carolina’s Lexington Medical Center Extended Care, he often asks himself, “Is this a place where I would want one of my family members to live?” With the facility’s clean, homelike environment and holiday celebrations, he says his answer is always “yes.” As LMCEC’s director of facility […]

Roger Davila doesn’t perform veterinary services, but he helps put pet owners at ease while their animal is being treated. As the director of real estate and construction for Pathway Vet Alliance, he keeps both human and animal comfort in mind as he works. He knows people don’t want to bring their sick or injured […]

Sitting for hours outside of MedStar Georgetown Hospital’s surgical waiting room back in May 2017, Paul Robinson clearly remembers the stress he felt as his mother underwent hip replacement surgery. It was a trying time for his family, but it was softened by the kindness of the MedStar healthcare staff. Subconsciously, he says, that experience […]

Prior to the pandemic, the idea of de-stressing for an hour in one of Massage Envy’s franchised locations with soothing, low-lit, dark purple treatment rooms may have seemed the ideal. But in the days of COVID-19? The massage, wellness and skin care national franchisor faced some difficult days as clients stayed physically distant. To help […]