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WEBThe 239,00-square-foot state mental health hospital in Indianapolis is one of the facility tours offered at the 2024 HCD Conference + Expo in Indianapolis, Oct. 5-8. The 650,000-square-foot project adds a new patient tower, expands services, and transforms a parking lot into a new community park space. The 12,000-square-foot medical and ...
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.
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 ...
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 …
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 ...
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.
Best Practices For Rehab Center Design - HCD Magazine
WEBMar 18, 2016 · The HCD 10: Chris Hoal, Architect. Edited by Anne DiNardo | August 20, 2024 | Chris Hoal, healthcare market design leader at Gresham Smith (Nashville, Tenn.), is the 2024 HCD 10 Architect. Designing rehabilitation centers requires considerations for patients, staff, and technology/equipment. Experts from …
PHOTO TOUR: The New Stamford Hospital - HCD Magazine
WEBApr 7, 2017 · In 2002, Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Conn., was challenged on a couple fronts: Neighborhoods to the south of the campus were in socioeconomic deterioration, and patient satisfaction ratings had room for improvement. That set the stage for planning a new replacement hospital with the goal of bringing the 305-bed hospital to the leading edge of healthcare; engaging the medical staff, patients ...
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 ...
Centralized vs. Decentralized Nursing Stations - HCD Magazine
WEBOct 31, 2010 · Nurses working in decentralized nursing stations were observed consulting medical staff more frequently than nurses working in centralized nursing stations (centralized M = 1.5, SD = 1.7; decentralized M = 2.7, SD = 2.5). T -test results indicated that this difference was significant, t (58) = 2.11, p = .039. Table 6.