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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.
    Issue Brief

    Healthcare at Home: A White Paper
    April 2019 ∘ Issue Brief ∘
    A White Paper Supporting the Healthcare at Home Interactive Design Diagrams  
    Webinar

    Behavioral Health Behind Closed Doors
    December 2018 ∘ Webinar ∘
    This webinar explores how MedStar Health is using fast-track design to help catalyze a new model of behavioral health, using the reduction of barriers, small house concepts and interior design strategies to create positive environments where patients are positively impacted. 
    Executive Summary

    Safety Risk Assessment: The Center for Health Design Toolkit - Risk Components
    July 2018 ∘ Executive Summary ∘
    This summary compiles the executive summaries of six Safety Risk Assessment Issue Briefs to provide a high-level overview of the latent conditions of the built environment and their related design categories found in the CHD SRA toolkit.
    Webinar

    The Medical Behavioral Unit: Enhancing Patient Safety and Experience Through Design
    June 2018 ∘ Webinar ∘
    This webinar explores how the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia pursued a vision to develop a new pediatric patient care unit: one that would meet the requirements and licensure of an acute care unit, but would provide a safe and supportive environment for patients with a comorbid developmental, behavioral, or psychiatric diagnosis. 
    Interview

    The Design of a Psychiatric Clinic in Borås Sweden Strives to Create a "Healing" Environment, an interview with Stefan Lundin and Cristiana Caira
    February 2018 ∘ Interview ∘
    Learn about how the design of a new psychiatric facility strives to normalize mental illness through carefully chosen materials with the goal of creating a “homey,” non-institutional setting, why private patient rooms will be included in the new final building as an important part of the design concept, and how research helped shape the architects’ beliefs that the built environment should support patients’ dignity and independence as part of the recovery process.
    Webinar

    Safety Risk Assessment 2.0
    January 2018 ∘ Webinar ∘
    This webinar introduces the new, easier to use, online interface for The Center’s Safety Risk Assessment (SRA) toolkit, a proactive and systematic approach to designing and renovating healthcare facilities for safety. Originally developed through research and consensus to support the requirements of the FGI Guidelines, The Center's research team will walk you through the why, what, and how of each part of the online SRA toolkit illustrating features with vignettes gathered from the testing process.  
    EBD Journal Club

    Toward a Framework for Designing Person-Centered Mental Health Interiors for Veterans
    October 2017 ∘ EBD Journal Club ∘
    Toward a Framework for Designing Person-Centered Mental Health Interiors for Veterans, Journal of Interior Design, DOI: 10.1111/joid.12095
    EBD Journal Club

    Does Space Matter? An Exploratory Study for a Child–Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Unit
    August 2017 ∘ EBD Journal Club ∘

    Trzpuc, S. J., Wendt, K. A., Heitzman, S. C., Skemp, S., Thomas, D., & Dahl, R. (2016). Does space matter? An exploratory study for a child–adolescent mental health inpatient unit. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 10(1), 23-44.
    Tool

    Population Health Clinic Evaluation Tool - (PDF Version)
    March 2017 ∘ Tool ∘

    Built environment strategies can help healthcare organizations and communities promote healthy living, reduce obesity, and prevent chronic disease. Given the increasing focus on community health and preventive medicine, it is important that healthcare organizations and the communities they serve incorporate built environment strategies that result in healthy behavior. With support from the Kresge Foundation, The Center for Health Design has developed a standardized Community Health Center Facility Evaluation tool that supports design for population health. The tool is intended to support both design and post-occupancy evaluation of built projects with respect to population health goals.
    EBD Journal Club

    The Role of Flooring as a Design Element Affecting Patient and Healthcare Worker Safety
    October 2014 ∘ EBD Journal Club ∘
    Harris, D. D., Detke, L. A. (2013). The role of flooring as a design element affecting patient and healthcare worker safety. Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 6(3), 95-119.