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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

    Going Quiet: Best Practices
    March 2014 ∘ Issue Brief

    As part of the noise toolbox, in this issue brief you will learn about how excessive noise can negatively impact patients and staff in the hospital environment, ways to improve patients’ perception of sound, and low-cost, medium-cost, and high-cost design strategies that can reduce noise.
    Design Strategies

    Design Strategies — Noise
    May 2014 ∘ Design Strategies
    Overview

    HCAHPS scores related to noise in the hospital environment are typically among the lowest. Acoustic intervention packages implemented by healthcare organizations are often a combination of built environment and operational measures.  

     
    Lessons Learned

    Lessons Learned About Noise in the Hospital Setting

    August 2014 ∘ Lessons Learned

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

    Multi-Phase Approach Achieves Culture of Quiet
    October 2014 ∘ Project Brief

    Learn about: how St. Mary's Hospital targeted noise reduction goals for their cardiac care unit, about onsite sound measurements that informed material selection, and about design changes that resulted in reduced noise from the highest sources of sound.