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Get the latest trends, tools, and resources for improving healthcare environments here. Browse our many free and members-only resources, including research reports and issue briefs, interviews, case studies, design strategies, lessons learned, key point summaries, and webinars.
    EBD Journal Club

    EBD Journal Club: Analyzing ICU Patient Room Environmental Quality Through Unoccupied, Normal, and Emergency Procedure Modes: An EQI Evaluation
    July 2020 ∘ EBD Journal Club ∘
    Wagner, J.A., Greeley, D.G., Gormley, T.C. (2019). Health Environments Research & Design Journal. DOI: 10.1177/1937586719854218
    Issue Brief

    Contact Transmission, Part 2: Materials, Design, and Cleaning
    June 2019 ∘ Issue Brief ∘
    As part of the infection control toolbox, in this issue brief you will learn about, high-touch and soft surfaces and their effect on antimicrobial behavior, different cleaning mechanisms and their impact on surfaces, and an approach for structuring infection prevention teams during the design process. 
    Webinar

    Automating Safety: How Design Research Can Reveal Solutions for Safe Environments
    April 2019 ∘ Webinar ∘
    By combining observation, interviews, simulation, and rapid prototyping, this team developed design solutions that help healthcare workers stay safe while engaged in challenging tasks. This webinar brings the experience of the healthcare practitioners who cared for Ebola patients during the 2014 outbreak and introduces a human-centered discovery approach developed by design researchers at SimTigrate Design Lab to define the design requirements of spaces where the risk of self- and cross-contamination is the highest.
    Webinar

    Don’t Get Bugged: Designing for Modern Infectious Diseases
    March 2019 ∘ Webinar ∘
    This webinar will focus on a case study on the efficient design of one of the largest treatment centers for infectious diseases in the U.S. The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston’s new six-bed bio-containment critical care unit will serve as a multifunctional patient care space that is equipped to treat patients with the most highly contagious diseases. 
    Project Brief

    Design Solutions to Improve Healthcare Access and Outcomes - Kaiser Permanente Antelope Valley Medical Offices
    March 2017 ∘ Project Brief ∘
    Learn about: how innovative design can be achieved at the same or similar cost, how design can result in a well-regarded community landmark, and how community-based care improves patient use and compliance with regimens.
    EDAC Advocate Firm Project

    Lonestar Family Health Center, Conroe, TX
    September 2012 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project ∘
    The goal for this project was to create a patient-centered healthcare facility, using EBD, objectives include: wayfinding integrated into the architecture, zoned circulation - separation of on-stage and off-stage flow, and clear access to patient care areas with minimal travel distances. 
    EDAC Advocate Firm Project

    Ft. Bliss Army Medical Center, El Paso, TX
    September 2011 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project ∘
    The goal for this project was to create a world-class facility using evidence-based design (EBD), LEED, and patient- and family–centered strategies. The re-design of the Ft. Bliss Army Medical Center not only took into account the Military Health System (MHS) World-Class Checklist, but also information gathered from 14 EBD working groups to further influence the design. 
    Webinar

    Infection Prevention During Design & Construction of Health Care Facilities
    June 2014 ∘ Webinar ∘
    This presentation provides information on the current incidence of healthcare-associated infections in U.S. hospitals and design & construction considerations that can help prevent these outcomes. Examples of published outbreaks related to design and construction activity are provided. In addition, specific examples of design options and construction risk mitigation measures will be reviewed. 
    Tool

    Patient Room Design Checklist and Evaluation Tool
    August 2015 ∘ Tool ∘
    Developed through extensive review of research, surveys, site tests, and review and validation by expert advisory council members, this standard set of evidence-based design checklists and post-occupancy evaluation (POE) tools can be used by interior designers to apply research to healthcare design projects and to conduct post-occupancy evaluations of three types of hospital patient rooms: adult medical-surgical, adult intensive care, and maternity care.
    Lessons Learned

    Lessons Learned About Infection Control
    June 2015 ∘ Lessons Learned ∘

    The following are compiled from research literature, case studies, interviews, and other materials to provide an overview on the topic of infection control.