Healthcare

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.

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.

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.

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.