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Inside UCI Health – Irvine’s All-electric Acute Care Hospital
Owner UCI Health, University of California, Irvine combined all-electric systems, biophilic design, and AI-driven surgical planning to open one of the most sustainable acute care hospitals in the country.
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Designing Healthcare Exclusively For Women
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.
Trends April 30Using 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 opportunity to interact with multiple caregivers. It also is the place where…
News April 30Raising the bar of baseline knowledge through the measurement of design innovations
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…
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