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Insights & Solutions

Podcast
February 2022 Podcast

What happened in 1995 when a 30 year old Clinical Oncology Nurse Specialist at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland gave chemotherapy to her breast cancer patient named Maggie Keswick Jencks?

Slidecast
February 2022 Slidecast

Kelada, L., Wakefield, C. E., De Graves, S., Treadgold, C., Dumlao, G., Schaffer, M., O'Brien, T., (2021) Evaluation of an in-hospital recreation room for hospitalised children and their families. Journal of Pediatric Nursing

The play room in this pediatric hospital is the great escape. Let’s use this research and design an escape to get in, not get out.

Slidecast
February 2022 Slidecast

Noble, L., Devlin, A. S., (2021) Perceptions of psychotherapy waiting rooms: Design recommendations. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal

The results here tell us far more about what does not work in the design of a behavioral health waiting room, rather than what does work, and the authors propose some types of waiting rooms may give patients the impression that the practitioner does not care about their wellbeing while waiting.

Slidecast
February 2022 Slidecast

Rubio, N., Macías, F., Gómez, E., (2021) The Children’s Council as a mean of participation in a hospital. American Journal of Nursing Studies

This study shows that “serious play” is a creative way to gain the insight of children through a design decision making process.

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Webinar
January 2022 Webinar

In this casual conversation amongst colleagues and friends, these thought leaders will share their real-world experiences, memorable stories from their careers and most importantly, they’ll help guide attendees towards a path forward and shed light on their view of the opportunities for the future of healthcare delivery and design. 

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Webinar
January 2022 Webinar

This webinar will help researchers and practitioners in health design walk away with a better understanding of these hand-picked studies from 2021, synthesized visually in under one hour.  

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Webinar
January 2022 Webinar

This webinar will highlight how to use our tool and how it can enable design teams to enhance communication, encourage innovation, and highlight both quality and quantity.  

EDAC Advocate Firm Project
January 2022 EDAC Advocate Firm Project

ARCH Design's objective was to support an enhanced patient experience by developing a localized artwork program representing the region's culturally diverse population, creating comfort and connection through relevant and familiar imagery. Evidence-based design guided the artwork selections by focusing on how it would impact both patients and caregivers.

EDAC Advocate Firm Project
January 2022 EDAC Advocate Firm Project

There were key goals addressed to guide the design excellence parameters: to promote recovery and transition; to foster connection and connectivity with people and their surroundings; to create a healing environment; to enhance the staff and patient experience; to enhance co-mingling (of staff, patients, visitors and community); and to reduce stigma.  

EDAC Advocate Firm Project
January 2022 EDAC Advocate Firm Project

Located within a large senior living community, the following goals of the outpatient facility were tantamount:

Reduce patient falls Reduce patient stress Increase patient satisfaction Increase staff satisfaction