In July 2010, my column “Best Practice, Next Practice” identified the drivers for innovation. In it, I noted that the best practices of today are steeped in baseline evidence, and the next practice resulting from innovation springs from that qualified baseline of knowledge, but has to be measured to earn its status as the next best practice. Research currently being conducted will measure some baseline design features and some innovative design features.
The small, and sometimes large, nuances of hospital design can and do play a significant role in helping to heal patients and increase the satisfaction of healthcare professionals. Design elements can have an enormous impact on patients and families, and now are a strategic element essential for the future of many healthcare organizations. Increasing efficiencies, reducing length of stays, and improving mortality and morbidity rates are imperative for healthcare organizations as evidence-based design elements are incorporated.
This issue is the second of our four Spotlight issues for 2011, highlighting women's hospitals from around the country. In addition to it hitting just in time for Mother's Day, this issue also focuses on a subject that hits home for me on a personal level right now,...
Exceeding one's own expectations has its rewards. In this case, a 238-bed, full-service hospital in northwestern Virginia learned that its reward for over-achievement is Gold.
Welcome to our 4th edition of the HEALTHCARE DESIGN Platinum Products and Services Guide!
Ever come across a product that was so beautifully designed that you just had to comment on it? Whether in terms of appearance, functionality, or both, it showed the work of an ingenious product designer.
This was the case with Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio.
Although a handful of free-standing women's hospitals are serving women in select urban centers around the country, much more so, healthcare developers have embraced the concept of the women's pavilion.
Last century, healthcare delivery in India was primarily led by private practitioners and doctor-owned hospitals. Almost all large institutions were either run by the government or supported by private donations to be run as charitable hospitals. In the past decade, a growing demand for quality healthcare in India–and subsequent absence of high-quality delivery mechanisms–posed a great challenge and an even greater opportunity. This demand has led to rapid transformation of Indian healthcare from an unorganized to an organized structure, indeed a paradigm shift in the industry.
In this first part of a three-part series on incorporating family into the patient room, authors Hannah Jefferies and Jennifer Merchant of Perkins+Will discuss the core concepts of the model and introduce a project at Rush University Medical Center, where that model was used.
What is the relationship between the stairway and efficiency? Inverse? As technological advances produced elevators, we quickly relegated the stairs to the mostly infrequent (albeit vitally important) function of emergency egress. Who uses staircases anyway? Elevators...
