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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.

Interview

The Need for Research, Part 2, an Interview with Barry Rabner

November 2014 ∘ Interview ∘

Interview

What Can Architects and Designers Do To Help? an Interview with Todd Wilkening, CHFM, CHST

November 2014 ∘ Interview ∘

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.

Webinar

Behavioral Health Behind Closed Doors

December 2018 ∘ Webinar ∘
This webinar explores how MedStar Health is using fast-track design to help catalyze a new model of behavioral health, using the reduction of barriers, small house concepts and interior design strategies to create positive environments where patients are positively impacted.

Interview

The Design of a Psychiatric Clinic in Borås Sweden Strives to Create a "Healing" Environment, an interview with Stefan Lundin and Cristiana Caira

February 2018 ∘ Interview ∘
Learn about how the design of a new psychiatric facility strives to normalize mental illness through carefully chosen materials with the goal of creating a “homey,” non-institutional setting, why private patient rooms will be included in the new final building as an important part of the design concept, and how research helped shape the architects’ beliefs that the built environment should support patients’ dignity and independence as part of the recovery process.

Issue Brief

Design for Behavioral and Mental Health: More Than Just Safety

February 2018 ∘ Issue Brief ∘
As part of the Behavioral & Mental Health toolbox, in this issue brief you will learn about the prevalence of behavioral and mental health conditions as comorbidities; design strategies for promoting psychological wellness; and a systematic benefit analysis approach to meet the psychological needs of all.

EBD Journal Club

Does Space Matter? An Exploratory Study for a Child–Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Unit

August 2017 ∘ EBD Journal Club ∘

Trzpuc, S. J., Wendt, K. A., Heitzman, S. C., Skemp, S., Thomas, D., & Dahl, R. (2016). Does space matter? An exploratory study for a child–adolescent mental health inpatient unit. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 10(1), 23-44.

Tool

Ambulatory Care Center Design Tool

December 2015 ∘ Tool ∘
This Ambulatory Care Center Design Tool (ACCDT), developed by Dr. Anjali Joseph and Dr. Zahra Zamani from Clemson University in collaboration with The Center for Health Design (CHD), builds upon a series of papers, best practice case studies and in-depth literature reviews conducted by CHD as well as CHD's Clinic Design Post-Occupancy Evaluation Toolkit – Tool 2 Audit of Physical Environment with additions from a thesis by Crews (2013). The tool supports design teams in making key design decisions about ambulatory care centers linked to evidence based design goals and principles.

Environmental Cleanliness Evaluation Checklist

Design Strategies – Environmental Cleanliness

Ideas to Improve Nurse-Patient Communication

Dedicated Service Corridor in an Adult Cardiac ICU, A Medical Center in the North Central United States

The Need for Research, Part 2, an Interview with Barry Rabner

What Can Architects and Designers Do To Help? an Interview with Todd Wilkening, CHFM, CHST

Combining Comfort with Evidence-Based Design

Treating Noise at the Source, an interview with Ken Roy, PhD

Behavioral Health Behind Closed Doors

The Design of a Psychiatric Clinic in Borås Sweden Strives to Create a "Healing" Environment, an interview with Stefan Lundin and Cristiana Caira

Design for Behavioral and Mental Health: More Than Just Safety

Does Space Matter? An Exploratory Study for a Child–Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Unit

Ambulatory Care Center Design Tool

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