PRA Formally Integrates Dental Design Services

03.01.202403.04.2024

PRA Healthcare Design Expands Services

The PRA Healthcare Design Studio now integrates Dental Design Services following a merger with the Practice Design Group (PDG) of Buda TX. This merger follows twelve years of collaboration between PRA and PDG resulting in successful projects across the nation. Dental design practitioners Jeff Carter, DDS and Pat Carter, IIDA formally join the Healthcare Design Studio to work internally within PRA alongside the Healthcare Design professionals they have mentored for many years.

Integrated Design of Wellness Centers

02.13.202402.13.2024

For the past few decades (Mantri 2008) our healthcare system has been evolving from a narrow scope of treating illness and disease to a holistic approach that fosters health for the whole person—addressing physical, social, intellectual, and emotional well-being.

PRA Promotes Renee Moe to Principal

01.16.202401.16.2024

PRA Healthcare Design Strengthens Leadership

The PRA Healthcare Design Studio is expanding leadership with the formal promotion of healthcare architect and dental planner Renee Moe to Principal in the firm.

Renee is a licensed architect with many distinctions in both architectural design and architectural technology including certifications as an EDAC, CDT, CCA, and CSI professional. She has wide project experience including projects for clinics, medical office buildings, and hospitals for healthcare providers throughout the nation.

Is Retail Healthcare our Future?

11.09.202107.27.2023

Walgreens, CVS Health, Walmart, and Amazon, what do they all have in common? They are all large retail stores that have chain stores or a vast retail market reach across the United States and are trying their hand at the healthcare industry. These new entries to the healthcare industry are challenging traditional healthcare providers and shifting how we view medical care. Not only are they making services more widely available, but they also provide transparent,

The Rise of Telemedicine: Impacts on Healthcare Planning

11.04.202108.01.2023

COVID-19 has accelerated the access and prevalence of virtual healthcare platforms. Once thought of as a future technology, telemedicine has quickly become part of a “new normal” that providers and patients must navigate.

A Modern Transitional Care Center

06.29.202008.02.2023

A turnkey modular transitional care unit provides flexible step-down care through a new partnership of Plunkett Raysich Architects and MDN Development

Healthcare Workplace Violence

05.07.202008.02.2023

Ensuring Healthcare Worker Safety

Healthcare workers have a higher risk of experiencing workplace violence than workers in many other industries. Why should healthcare worker safety be different than employee safety in other industries? It’s an exposure issue: Healthcare workplace violence is most often perpetrated by patients. Family members, other visitors, coworkers and others can also become involved in workplace violence.

PRA Wins ASID Design Excellence Awards

04.15.201908.03.2023

Four recently-completed facilities designed by Plunkett Raysich Architects, LLP (PRA) were honored by the Wisconsin Chapter of American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) at the organization’s 2019 Design Excellence Awards on March 21.

Open Office Design Lead to Open Communication

08.13.201808.04.2023

If your business requires open communication between staff, then your physical environment must respond to their communication needs. We work in teams on the design of all of our architectural projects. There may be five or more architects working on one project. It is extremely important that they can easily communicate with each other, and keep in touch with other project teams.

Three years ago, we moved from an individual cubicle environment with five-foot partitions to an open office design with fewer lower partitions.