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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.
EDAC Advocate Firm Project

Benjamin & Marian Schuster Heart Hospital, Kettering, OH

September 2015 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project

The goal for this project was to change a patient’s hospital experience through specific environmental design features aimed at reducing stress.
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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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.
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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.
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Project Brief

The Effects of Material Selection on Noise Levels in Two Patient Care Units
October 2014 ∘ Project Brief

Learn about: the impact of noise on both patient and staff outcomes, about the methods the research team used to evaluate noise levels, and the difference between patient and staff perceptions of noise sources.