Operations and Facility Management Trends - HCD Magazine
WEBADA-compliance for healthcare facilities, cleanability of surfaces and materials, wayfinding, bariatric design, workflows, and myriad other considerations come into play when designing environments that support effective facility management. One of the biggest considerations is infection control. Especially now, as the U.S. healthcare system ...
Key Considerations in Patient Room Design, Part 1
WEBApr 1, 2006 · Once the patient room plan is determined, the hospital must confirm the detailed design features for the headwall, footwall, nursing support area, and family amenities. Headwall. The wall behind and the ceiling over the patient’s head are the most important spaces for incorporating clinical care elements.
The History of Hospitals and Wards - HCD Magazine
WEBMar 11, 2010 · A brief history of hospitals and wards. Hopefully, this brief history of hospitals helps illustrate the tremendous advances over the past 2,000-plus years from the temples and pauper wards to private rooms. The challenge facing us now, as in the past, is how to continue to improve the quality of the patient environment by providing cost ...
Healing Hues: Choosing Paint Colors for Healthcare
WEBMay 11, 2012 · You want a nice balance of both warm and cool colors. Cool colors tend to be more calming, so things that are in the blues and the blue-greens, those types of colors really put people at ease because they do bring a sense of tranquility. But you don’t want to get so cool that it feels cool. So you want to balance those colors with some warmth ...
Planning and Designing Highly Functional Nurses' Stations
WEBNov 1, 2006 · Key Design Principles. Regardless of which organizational type one chooses, our research team has identified five key principles to consider when designing a nurses’ station or series of stations. 1. Allow for Control and Flexibility. The ability for staff and patients to control their environment is crucial.
Designing the ultimate nursing unit - HCD Magazine
WEBMar 1, 2003 · 2. Be designed for peak efficiency. Efficiency considerations are important in the design of the ideal nursing station. Traffic patterns, unit capacity, patient type, acuity of illnesses treated, and system processes all affect efficiency. Figure 4 depicts an entrance to the nursing unit of a NICU. The doorway leads to the medication room ...
Shaping The Future Of Modern Clinic Design - HCD Magazine
WEBMay 6, 2015 · The primary care community clinic is evolving with new technology, new care models, and new reimbursement standards. These changes are impacting the way patients choose to receive care and, in turn, the way we design clinics to offer increased patient choices.For more than 20 years as a healthcare interior designer, I have observed, and in part helped shape, changes in the patient experience ...
Design Solutions To Improve Waiting In Healthcare
WEBDec 6, 2016 · Designers and owners have options to employ operations, technology, and design to achieve the most appropriate solutions for waiting and waiting spaces. Joan Suchomel, AIA, ACHA, EDAC, is the 2016 president of the American Institute of Architects’ Academy of Architecture for Health. She is a principal at …
Design Rx: Delivering Operationally Efficient Pharmacies
WEBSep 1, 2015 · Moving away from small satellite locations, hospitals pharmacies are being built in centralized locations to better leverage clinical pharmacists’ expertise as part of the medical team, and to more efficiently fill, package, and deliver medication to patient units. Meanwhile, more complex medical inventories, regulations mandating strict handling procedures, and the need for tight stock ...
As Cities Change, So Must Their Hospitals - HCD Magazine
WEBFeb 1, 2022 · As Cities Change, So Must Their Hospitals. The Hill-Burton Act of 1946 funded many of our urban hospitals across the U.S., from the post-war period through the 1970s. American cities of that era presented a very different social, economic, and cultural landscape than they do now. Health campuses, in keeping with the …
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