Precautionary Tale: A Detailed Approach To Biocontainment Unit Design
In 2004, as part of nationally coordinated antiterrorism efforts, Nebraska Medicine brought online a first-of-its-kind unit for the…
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Reducing Visual Overload In The ED
Cleveland Clinic has been working to standardize its design aesthetic over the years to create a unified identity…
Trends February 25Listen Up: Surveying Patients To Shape Better Designs
Sometimes the best ideas are the most obvious. For example, if you want to make cancer patients comfortable…
Trends February 19Making Healthcare Visits A Ride In The Park
A hospital stay can often be described as an emotional roller coaster, an experience riddled with loaded expectations,…
Trends February 18Tackling The Transition To The New Parkland
In 2008, leadership at Parkland Hospital in Dallas realized that the facility built in 1954 had reached its…
Trends February 18Teaching To The Test
A group of well-meaning politicians crafted the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), in an…
Trends February 16Risk Management: Preparing Your Facility To Handle Infectious Disease Patients
Earlier this year as the World Health Organization was declaring that the countries hit hardest by Ebola—Guinea, Liberia,…
Trends February 11Designing To Accommodate The Short-Stay Patient
Many types of patients no longer meet inpatient admission criteria but still need to remain in a hospital…
Trends February 5Five Ways Design Can Make Doctors’ Visits Shorter
Shorter wait times are a patient satisfier, but certain design configurations can make patient wait times and appointments…
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