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Family in Focus: Incorporating the Family into the Patient Room, Part 3
Photo credit: © Perkins+Will, 2011In this third installment of a three-part series on incorporating family into the patient…
News May 8VA Celebrates Research Week
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) serves as a model of healthcare for facilities and health systems nationwide.…
News May 4Pediatric Waiting Area Design
If someone sat down with a group of parents and asked them what they most desired in a…
News May 4Healthcare Reform: Operational Impact and the Lean Design Team, Part 1
Photos courtesy of: CollinsWoerman
News May 4tgba: Beauty or the Beast?
As I sit here looking at our child’s DVD collection, my eyes focus on the famous Disney title,…
News May 3Family in Focus: Incorporating the Family into the Patient Room, Part 2
Photo credit: ©Perkins+Will, 2011; Figure 1. Exterior ground view rendering of Rush University Medical Center at the intersection…
News May 3HKS: Blurring the Lines between Patient Safety and Satisfaction
Infection control is one of the biggest hot topics in healthcare today. Much of this may be attributed…
News May 2Anthropology Underutilized in Healthcare Design
Cultural anthropologists have been used by some of the leading industrial design firms to help study human behavior…
News May 1Using evidence-based strategies to design safe, efficient, and adaptable patient rooms
The patient room is where patients spend the majority of their hospital stay and where they have the…
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