The next generation of patient rooms is already being designed, with projects-in-progress sharing a glimpse of what’s in store for the future of inpatient care. Dive into this special report on patient room design from Healthcare Design.
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Unit Design Is Secret To Successful Patient Room
A huge piece of ensuring that a patient room operates as intended is defined by what happens just outside its walls. “How efficient is the unit itself and how available is the equipment [caregivers] need? What’s the travel distance, what are the sightlines from caregiver to caregiver, and caregiver to patient?” says Tim Fishking, a principal with NBBJ.
Patient Room Design: High Stakes
Healthcare design industry experts share insight on the patient room of the future, particularly how to design the space to answer demands for patient privacy and experience, staff efficiency and flexibility, evolving technology use in care delivery, and more and more highly acute cases.
FIRST LOOK: 620 Fulton
A 65,000-square-foot health center will be the anchor of downtown Brooklyn, N.Y.’s 620 Fulton, a new mixed-use building in an up-and-coming cultural district of New York.
The New Parkland: Lessons In Practical Design
I was in a car with Hank Adams, senior vice president and director of healthcare for HDR, as we drove along a Dallas freeway, chatting about the city, the weather, the industry. That is until we reached a clearing where, suddenly, a mass appeared on the skyline.
Hank excitedly pointed it out to me: Parkland.
Bridging The Healthcare Design Gap
In a review of any body of work, there’s an obvious value to the patterns and themes that start to emerge and paint a picture of whatever it is that’s being studied.
Standouts: Showcase Honorable Mentions
The 2014 Healthcare Design Showcase jury tapped three projects among the 100 submitted to be recognized with an Honorable Mention award. They are each unique in their challenges, and the results of the design solutions identified by their design teams—as well as specifically what jurors appreciated in those responses—are detailed below.
Setting A New Standard For Healthcare Design
Every new concept that wows an industry eventually reaches the day when its application isn’t as exciting as it once was—when it’s no longer labeled as innovative. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, especially if that concept held enough value in the first place to see its adoption become standard practice.
Where Operations And Design Meet
During a meeting the other day, I was asked to define evidence-based design (EBD). Of course, there are a few different ways to illustrate the benefits of having research available to support design interventions, such as improving outcomes, increasing patient satisfaction, or reducing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
FIRST LOOK: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Specialty Care Center
In order to meet the medical and surgical needs of patients by providing care close to their homes, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) decided to expand its network of ambulatory care centers.
Self-developed and currently under construction, with completion expected in 2015, is a new, freestanding Specialty Care Center in King of Prussia, Pa. The 145,000–square-foot project collocates existing specialty care practices and expands regional ambulatory care and surgery services.
FIRST LOOK: Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital
Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln, Neb., provides specialized rehabilitation programs for traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, and pulmonary, burn, and other disabling conditions for children and adults. Today, the hospital is planning a new 110-bed facility in Omaha, Neb., that will reflect the mission and culture of Madonna with an emphasis on holistic rehabilitation, addressing the body, mind, and soul, and involving families as well as patients in the healing process.
An International Standard Of Care And Design
Western medical planning works with Chinese projects to develop an international standard for hospitals and senior facilities, said Alan Warner, president of Beijing-based Warner Architecture Studio.
