Architect Receives New Women's Center Design Commission

Bernstein & Associates, Architects is pleased to announce that it has been selected to design a new women's center in Westchester County, NY.

The project includes multiple women's center modalities including the design and construction of rooms for ultrasound, bone densitometry, digital mammography and stereotactic biopsy. In addition, the women's center will have typical support space such as dressing rooms, offices, reception and waiting.

The project will be designed to complement the professional and caring approach of the radiologists behind this new, state-of-the-art women's center.

About Bernstein & Associates, Architects:

Bernstein & Associates, Architects has specialized in healthcare and lab design and construction since the firm's founding in 1990. This architecture firm is well-known for the planning, design and construction of radiology facilities. The firm's principal --- William N. Bernstein, AIA --- is a well known radiology architect who has written extensively on radiology design and construction. The firm is highly experienced with state-of-the-art radiology practice including leading edge equipment, planning strategies, and PACs implementation. Bernstein & Associates is experienced with all modalities, and with all of the major radiology equipment manufacturers. To focus on one modality, as an example, experience with MRI suite design includes the following: (5) 3.0T MRI suites within the last five years, one of the few 7.0T MRI suites in the entire world, and over (20) 1.5T MRI suites over the last 18 years. The firm’s radiology work has been published extensively --- see section below on Radiology Publications.

	Representative Radiology, Healthcare and Laboratory Publications:
	"Design of a State-of-the-Art Research Radiology Center"© William N. Bernstein, Hospital Newspaper
	"Universal Room Design Can Mitigate Change Costs", © William N. Bernstein, Aunt Minnie.com
	“The Planetree Approach”, © William N. Bernstein, Hospital Newspaper
	“Trading Spaces”, © William N. Bernstein, Advance for Imaging and Oncology
	“Ten Points of the New Healthcare Design", © William N. Bernstein, Hospital Newspaper
	"Facility Planning Implications of the New MRI Safety Guidelines", © William N. Bernstein, Hospital Newspaper
	"Finding the Right Space for a New Imaging Center", © William N. Bernstein, AuntMinnie.com
	"On the Front Lines: A NYC Hospital Engineer's First Hand Account of Sept. 11", Health Facilities Management, © William N. Bernstein (with Michael Rawlings)
	"Floor Planning In a Nutshell", © M. J. Tamas, Advance for Administrators in Radiology
	“Architects Double-Team the Future of Radiology with Experience and a Can-Do Attitude”, © P. Rohland, Advance for Administrators in Radiology
	"Renovated Space, Skywalk `Reconnect' - 4 Floors Up", Health Facilities Management

For more information about healthcare and hospital design and construction, including radiology design and construction, contact Bernstein & Associates, Architects at: