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Healthcare Biophilia

Woodlands

Guidelines => healthier and happier patients

Emergency Departments and Kids

Planning for pediatric patients

Healthcare Design Fundamentals (02-20-23)

Jafarifiroozabadi and teammates build on the body of literature linking daylight and window views in hospitals to positive effects on patient wellbeing.  The team shares that they probed “the impact of access to daylight vs. window views on CICU [cardiac intensive care unit] patients’ LOS [length of stay in the hospital]. . . . patients receiving mechanical ventilation in rooms with access to daylight and window views had shorter LOS durations . . . than those in windowless rooms.

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Creating Waiting Spaces

Directly considering control

Psychiatric Hospital Design

Positive influences on outcomes

Designing for Healthcare Workers

Nurturing wellbeing and engagement

Behavioral Health Crisis Unit Design (11-10-22)

The Facilities Guidelines Institute has released an important new whitepaper, “Design of Behavioral Health Crisis Units,” available at https://fgiguidelines.org/resource/design-of-behavioral-health-crisis-units/.   As the website at which the whitepaper is provided explains, “This white paper supports the minimum requirements for behavioral health crisis units included in the 2022 Hospital and Outpatient Guidelines documents.

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Hospital Room Design (11-07-22)

Anyone who is familiar with Ulrich’s work in the 1980’s won’t be surprised by a study presented at the 2022 Scientific Forum of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress.

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Patients and Window Blinds

Room, hospital, care ratings affected

Oncology Center Design (10-17-22)

Sadek and Willis investigated how the design of oncology centers influences patient experiences by interviewing patients and former patients.  During the course of their research they “examine[d] key aspects of built environment that shape the experience of patients undergoing intravenous anti-cancer treatment within outpatient settings. . . . four themes highlighting the main contributions of contemporary healthcare design to patients’ experiences were synthesized.

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