This article was originally published on May 7, 2014, and is among Healthcare Design's Top 10 most-read articles of 2014. To see a full list, click here.
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Best Of 2014: Designing For The Patient Experience
This article was originally published on May 28, 2014, and is among Healthcare Design's Top 10 most-read articles of 2014. To see a full list, click here.
Patients’ healthcare experiences are largely driven by their clinical outcomes, their interactions with staff, and their perceptions of care. How and when the physical environment improves the patient experience is one of the hardest things to quantify.
Best Of 2014: Rethinking The Emergency Department
Lehigh Valley Hospital–Muhlenberg in Bethlehem, Pa., adds a rapid assessment unit to help address increased patient volume in the community hospital’s ED.
Best Of 2014: Camp Pendleton Replacement Hospital Mirrors Military Traditions
This article was originally published on April 25, 2014, and is among Healthcare Design's Top 10 most-read articles of 2014. To see a full list, click here.
Best of 2014: Modular Construction Delivers Flexibility To Healthcare
Using modular construction on healthcare projects can help reduce costs and shorten construction schedules.
Putting Evidence-Based Design Into Practice
When the design team of HDR Architecture and Young+Co. started working on the new Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton, it was right after the Surgeon General had mandated in 2007 that all new military hospitals be built using evidence-based design (EBD) principles.
Designing For Medicine’s Next Frontier
The field of regenerative medicine is still in its infancy, beginning around 1992, when researchers started experimenting with ways to encourage the human body to heal its own damaged tissues and organs.
This later led to exploration of biofabrication. Conceptually, this process of regenerative medicine is a form of 3-D printing that uses “bio-ink” to create new tissues, skin, and organs to solve a host of medical ailments.
Ebola Inspires Healthcare Facility Contingency Plan
Throughout history, pandemics—plague, small pox, and measles, among others—have caused millions of deaths. These were largely eradicated in developed countries by the 20th century, but strains such as HIV and now Ebola are continuing to kill thousands throughout the world, specifically affecting underdeveloped nations with weak healthcare systems. Ease of global travel has now increased exposure to the most virulent of these diseases, and many are starting to creep back into North America and Europe.
Best of 2014: Increasing Patient Satisfaction By Decreasing Patient Room Size
This article was originally published on May 12, 2014, and is among Healthcare Design's Top 10 most-read articles of 2014. To see a full list, click here.
Best Of 2014: How To Design A ‘Smart’ Hospital
This article was originally published on March 10, 2014, and is among Healthcare Design's Top 10 most-read articles of 2014. To see a full list, click here.
Healthcare-associated Infections Keep Industry On High Alert
Although recent Ebola cases have garnered the national spotlight, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) claim the lives of 99,000 Americans every year. Not only is the human toll of HAIs staggering, the cost of treating them in the U.S. is estimated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be upwards of $20 billion—one of the reasons why hospitals are facing reductions in Medicare payments if they don’t reduce HAIs by 2015.
Integration Of NICUs Into Hospitals
NICUs are currently one of the most discussed topics in the world of evidence-based design. As part of the Spencer de Mille Traveling Fellowship through the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Northern Pacific Chapter Knowledge Advancement Fund, I have the opportunity to participate in this exciting field of study.
