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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.

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Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned About Perception of Cleanliness
January 2016 ∘ Lessons Learned

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

A Healthcare Reform Primer Tool

August 2015 ∘ Tool

This tool outlines the relationships between design, measures, healthcare reform topics, and the legislation.
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.
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Design Strategies

Design Strategies — Healthcare Reform
September 2015 ∘ Design Strategies
Overview

While discussion of facility design and healthcare reform often focuses on the patient experience of noise and cleanliness as measured by the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, design is also a factor in reform-based outcome targets.  

 
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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.