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My Safety Net Clinic
March 2011 ∘ Tool
Overview

My Safety Net Clinic (MySNC) was developed by Dr. Larry Mallak and Wasif Butt of Western Michigan University in 2011. MySNC was funded by a grant from the California HealthCare Foundation, in conjunction with The Center for Health Design.  
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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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Hand Hygiene Evaluation Checklist
August 2015 ∘ 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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Clinic Design Post-Occupancy Evaluation Toolkit (Excel version)
August 2015 ∘ Tool

This Clinic Design Post Occupancy Evaluation Toolkit is self-administered and provides a way to collect a variety of data on the physical enviornment, subjective perception of users, and objective healthcare outcomes.
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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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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.