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Tool

Environmental Cleanliness Evaluation Checklist
January 2016 ∘ Tool ∘
This tool provides healthcare designers and professionals with ideas on how to address the issue of hand hygiene and infection control in facility design. 
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Design Strategies

Design Strategies – Environmental Cleanliness
January 2016 ∘ Design Strategies ∘
A clean healthcare environment helps improve an organization’s infection prevention efforts, patient satisfaction, and bottom-line.  The built environment design constitutes a key component of a systems approach to keeping the healthcare environment clean.
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Tool

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

Dedicated Service Corridor in an Adult Cardiac ICU, A Medical Center in the North Central United States
September 2012 ∘ EDAC Advocate Firm Project ∘
The goal of this project was to reduce noise and distractions in the patient care environment in the design of a new adult cardiac ICU. 
Blog

Combining Comfort with Evidence-Based Design

April 2015 ∘ Blog ∘

In today’s demanding healthcare marketplace, your design choices need to do double duty. They need to reflect your mission to prevent the transmission of germs in your facility while also incorporating a patient-centered care approach to help people feel at home in your units. But this raises a serious question: Can safety and comfort co-exist? The answer is a resounding “yes.” Many modern facilities are finding creative ways to integrate both missions seamlessly so patients and staff reap the full benefits.
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Interview

Treating Noise at the Source, an interview with Ken Roy, PhD
October 2014 ∘ Interview ∘

Learn about: the key noise issues facing the industry today, design strategies that can be implemented to mitigate noise, the problems with spaces that are too quiet.