Healthcare Design Action Kit

A set of tools that helps healthcare managers and designers:

• Understand what patients want from the built environment
• Enhance the design process through consumer involvement
• Build patient-centered environments
• Improve design quality and consumer satisfaction

Initiated by The Center for Health Design and developed by The Picker Institute, this research-based kit includes several assessment tools and a recommended strategy to help healthcare managers and designers incorporate patients' and families' perspectives into the hospital building and design process.

The kit was created as a result of extensive research with patients and family members that helped identify what is important in the built environment and why such things are important to them. The patient-centered tools include:

• 18-minute video, "Enhancing the Quality of Health Care with the Built Environment: Through the Patient's Eyes -- Acute Care"
• Patient-centered Environmental Checklist
• Patient Survey
• Focus Group manual and Moderator's Guide

Order the kit for $199.99.
Originally $695. Components not sold separately.
Click here for ordering information.

A generous donation to produce the video was made by the Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation.