In Redesigned Rooms, Hospital Patients May Feel Better Already The possibility that the Ebola virus might find its way into the United States raises urgent questions about how well the interior design of our hospitals minimizes risks and promotes healing. Michael Kimmelman’s article (“In Redesigned Room, Hospital Patients May Feel Better Already,”August 21, 2014)highlighted the
“Making Hospitals Healthier” Lorissa Keller MacAllister, BSW, AIA, NCARB, LEED, AP, EDAC Founder and President, Enviah Purpose of Presentation. We need a new paradigm for healthcare facility design. Currently, we design spaces to facilitate the existing culture and processes, based on assumptions about the environmental impact on patients and staff. This presentation will
Abstract The health care facility and campus sets the stage for every patient experience, including those measured by the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey, otherwise known as HCAHPS. Join us for a panel discussion about the critical role that the facility management team plays as a component of an integrated bundle
Healthcare systems and facilities are continually challenged with changing practices and variations in volumes. The new economy has supported a perfect storm of changes: consolidation of services and facilities, various health systems mergers, new acquisitions, new measurements of performance and reimbursement with CMS meaningful use and value based purchasing, the continuing emergence of evidenced based
We are in a new era of design and use of our buildings. Today our greatest assets are the people in the organizations with the flattening of the business environment the uniqueness of business and especially in the knowledge economy. Business need to continue to improve the productivity of their workforce a more recent measure
Through years of experience and multiple planning projects I recognized early that in order to create a design that will work for the client you need to first get to know them well. As a designer and planner in Healthcare there have been years of work done to build evaluative models of design to predict