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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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A Healthcare Reform Primer Tool

August 2015 ∘ Tool

This tool outlines the relationships between design, measures, healthcare reform topics, and the legislation.
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Ideas to Improve Nurse-Patient Communication
August 2015 ∘ Tool

This tool provides healthcare designers and professionals with ideas on how to improve nurse-patient communication through facility design.
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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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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.  
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Ideas to Reduce Noise
September 2015 ∘ Tool

This tool provides healthcare designers and professionals with ideas on how to address the issue of noise in facility design.