A hospital’s infrastructure, including accessibility of antiseptic hand rub dispensers and single-or multi-bed patient rooms, can influence healthcare-associated colonization and infection rates, ...
Amanda Noth-Matchett, chief nursing officer for the adult academic health center at IU Health, says room design was planned with the goal to “support patient care for the next 100 years.” (IBJ ...
This month’s Facility File focuses on retrofitting a hospital’s patient floor with the addition of one fan-powered HEPA filter unit per patient room on a 30-patient room floor. The Facility File will ...
Hospital Building Teams are giving increasing attention to patient safety, and with good reason: The Institute of Medicine reports that as many as 1 out of 27 patients admitted into a hospital is ...
In an acute care hospital, the intensive care unit staff must effectively use specialized equipment, while making split-second decisions pertaining to the care of a large number of medically fragile ...
Hospital design is a critical factor influencing patient outcomes, staff efficiency, and the overall delivery of healthcare services. Contemporary research has highlighted that smart design strategies ...
I work in a state-of-the-art facility designed with a focus on the patient experience. Each patient room is bound by a large near-floor-to-ceiling window, inviting in the outside world and the urban ...
As construction continues on the sparkling new $2.3 billion IU Health hospital downtown, a unit in the old IU Health Methodist across the street offers a glimpse of the future. The space features mock ...
What sets children's hospital design apart from its more traditional counterpart? Care for children is different than it is for adults; "it just is," says one provider. Not only do you have the unique ...
Illustration of the experiment how an existing hospital room was transformed into a 3D virtual environment and then redesigned based on the Evidence-Based Design principle. In an online study, virtual ...
The comfort of patients with sight loss is being built into the design of a new eye hospital, health bosses have said. The ...